Recently I stopped by the Oranjezicht City Farm Market, which is on Granger Bay Blvd, V & A Waterfront, Cape Town. It has quite a nifty setup with a lot of cool stuff for sale. There are also various food stalls selling ready made food goods, ranging from samoosas to chocolate brownies, to Indian curries and gourmet sandwiches, ensuring there is something for everyone. There are also a very wide range of vegan options. 

The market promotes the plastic free movement, by selling fresh  and organic fruit and vegetables without plastic bags. All you do is grab a basket and choose all the fresh goodies that you like, weighing them at the end and getting them packed in a box or you can bring your own bags to take them away in.

Stallholder costs are kept as low as possible to encourage start up businesses, the vibe is friendly and supportive.

“Catering for vegans and vegetarians, raw foodies, and customers who want wheat, gluten, sugar and dairy-free alternatives is important to us. We also sell indigenous and other plants, heirloom and organic seed and gardening products.”

Held every Saturday and Sunday at the historic Granger Bay site of the V&A Waterfront, the OZCF Market Day is a community farmers-style market for independent local farmers and artisanal food producers. At the OZCF Market customers can do weekly food shopping (veg, fruit, bread, organic dairy, free-range eggs, honey, muesli etc), try out some delicious cooked and raw foods and be inspired about helping to build an alternative food system. Additionally, customers can buy edible plants and seedlings, compost and gardening supplies and equipment.

Entrance is free and dogs are welcome!

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Do you ever go to the grocery store and sometimes end up buying a whole trolley full of fresh fruit and vegetables because you couldn’t make up your mind on what fruit you actually wanted so you just took a bit of everything?  Then you get home and after a week or so most of it has not been eaten and is starting to go off.  So you end up throwing most of it away.  Well here’s an extremely simple way of keeping those vegetables and fruit for a little while longer.

Juice them!

What I mean is this.  When you see some fresh produce of yours starting to go off; for example let’s take carrots or peppers, or even apples.  Take them and stick them in a blender/juicer and blend them up (with the skin on if its edible), then pour into a container or into a zip lock plastic bag and stick it straight in the freezer.  This way you can have a nice natural, healthy juice whenever you want and you avoid letting your produce go to waste.

Most vegetables and fruits cannot really be frozen, since when you defrost them they can come out all soggy.  Believe me I tried.  Don’t ever freeze a cucumber!

There are also many combinations of fruit and vegetables you can try making a juice out of.  You just need to find the ones which you like the taste of and stick with those.

Some combinations can be:
Apples and carrots
Banana and mango
Mango and orange and carrots
Beetroot and carrots
Cucumbers and lemon and Kiwi

But when all else fails just close your eyes and throw some stuff in and see how it tastes!

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