Don Salvador Benedicto Vegetable Belt
Description
Main vegetable farming zone of the highland municipality — camote, gabi, cassava, and upland vegetables. In Don Salvador Benedicto, the highland town between Bacolod and San Carlos, cool enough to grow what the lowlands can’t. Cassava, camote, gabi and ube are the fallback staple in the uplands here — boiled as merienda, and the base of kakanin and budbud. Native siling labuyo grows in backyards rather than fields: small, fiercely hot, sold by the heap in the market.
Tips
The Ceres bus from Bacolod to San Carlos via DSB runs straight through the farming country and is both faster and cooler than the coastal route — ask to be dropped at the market. Bring a layer; it"s genuinely cold up here by Negros standards.
Stops
Northern Sugar & Seafood Corridor
How to get there
Ceres bus, Bacolod to San Carlos via Don Salvador — about 2 hours, historically around ₱130, and the faster of the two routes. Ask to be dropped at the market.
Best Times
Morning, while highland produce is being brought to market.