Observation Of Salinas

I had a great time learning and exploring the community of North Salinas. By visiting the community, interviewing locals who live and work in the community, and developing my own research I had the opportunity to learn interesting facts about the community that I never learned before. Even though I do not live in Salinas I feel like I am part of the community because I have many friends and family who live there. My family has the habit of running errands to Salinas. My family does most of the grocery shopping in groceries stores located in Salinas such as Foodmaxx or Walmart. Even though we have a small grocery store in Castroville my family prefers to go shopping in Salinas because those stores usually have the necessary personal items we need at a much cheaper price. For example, in Castroville, a small package of bread costs around four dollars and twenty- nine cents. In a grocery store in Salinas, the same package of bread costs 3
All of the members of my group decided to carpool and on our way to Salinas the traffic was clear and we were able to get from CSUMB to Salinas in twenty-five minutes. Another assumption that I had before exploring the community was the population. Since Salinas is mostly known for agriculture and farm working I assumed that the majority of the population living in North Salinas was mostly composed of Hispanics however when we were exploring Main Street I observed different groups of people other than Hispanics walking on the street and buying their groceries. When I saw the farmer’s market which is located in front of the fast food restaurants I observed how many Asians were buying their fresh and organic fruits. I assumed they like to buy their groceries early in the morning because there is not a lot of people shopping at that time however I am not sure if this is