Tree-mendous!
From the moment you arrive at the Harkerville Market, envy grips you by the throat: Why, you groan on the inside, are the residents of Knysna, Plettenberg Bay and surrounds so fortunate that they get to do their weekly shopping here on Saturdays, at a market that resembles the best in Europe? Blissful in the outdoors under a stand of shade trees. Everything as fresh as can be, locally produced and mostly organic. Vegetables and fruit, most of it grown in the region. Cheese and yoghurt. Farm eggs. Meat. Honey. Flowers. Plants. Bread from the wellknown île de païn bakery in Knysna…
If the Harkerville Market were a shop, you’d probably call it a “onestop supermarket”, because initially it seems like a cross between a farmer’s market and a food market – but then you notice the second department with arts and crafts, clothing, jewellery, toys, woodwork, bed linen, handbags and pretty things for the home.
And at the centre of
