This is something I never like to miss; the Nitida farmer’s market is on the last Saturday of every month on the beautiful grounds of the Nitida (handmade) wine estate. Just a few minutes away from Durbanville along a windy road, passing several rustic dwellings and some well-known as well as lesser-known wine estates, you will find yourself embarking on a gravel road beside an endless row of blue gum trees. The market is rather small but what it lacks in size it definitely makes up in variety. Each stall owner boasting something either 100% organic, homemade goodness, or fresh and preservative free! Options are extensive, just to give you a rough idea: local olives and olive oils, meat, chilli products, farm butter, free range eggs and chickens, exotic mushrooms, preserves and jams, biscuits and rusks, home baked pies, organic dried fruit and nuts, morning-baked bread, and home roasted coffee beans, and who knows what else!
Other things, more inedible, include stocking up your veggie and herb garden at the organic garden stall – which incidentally also offers a worm farm for sale (handmade of course)! However, what draws me most to the Nitida market are the most delicious samoosas and springrolls from a short Chinese lady who peers over her mobile deep fryer at you barking out her offer of “Clabstick Splinglolls”. It will only take you five minutes, while smiling politely and somewhat blankly into her expectant face, to realise that what she has in fact offered you are crabstick springrolls. Now that I have prepared you, feel free to visit her stall – they are divine!
The Nitida farm is a small family farm which is easy to locate and hard to leave. Also available on the farm is the wine cellar, the main restaurant and the breakfast restaurant. It is best to go in the morning (last Saturday of every month) so that you get the freshest produce and the first “Clabstick Splinglolls”. If you are interested in finding out more on Nitida visit this site http://nitida.co.za/ or more about the farmer’s market at http://www.urbansprout.co.za/?q=node/2855. Tell your GPS to take you here: Nitida Cellars, M13/Old Tygervalley Road, Durbanville, Cape Town.
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