There will be live music from the Marimba Band, a great range of fresh produce and free range meats and one of the largest ranges of on-tap craft beer in the country. See you there!

Halloumi recipe

Grilled halloumi and bean salad with skewered potatoes

Serves 4
Ingredients:
20 baby new potatoes
200g fine green beans, trimmed
675g broad beans, shelled
200g halloumi cheese cut into 5mm slices
1 clove garlic crushed to a paste with a large pinch of salt
6 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp cider vinegar
15g fresh basil leaves, shredded
3 tbsp chopped fresh savory
2 spring onions finely sliced
Salt and ground black pepper
4 metal or wooden skewers

Thread 5 potatoes onto each skewer and cook in a large pan of salted boiling water for about 7 mins, or until almost tender. Add the green beans and cook for 3 mins more. Tip in the broad beans and cook for just 2 mins. Drain all the vegetables in a large colander. Remove the potatoes from the colander, then refresh the cooked broad beans under plenty of cold running water. Pop each broad bean out of its skin to reveal the bright green inner bean. Place the beans in a bowl, cover and set aside.
Place the halloumi slices and the potato skewers in a wide dish. Whisk the garlic and oil together with a generous grinding of black pepper. Add to the dish and toss the halloumi and potato skewers in the mixture. Once the flames have died down, rake the coals to one side. Position a grill rack over the coals to heat.
When the coals are hot, or with a light coating of ash, heat a griddle until a few drops of water sprinkled onto the surface evaporate immediately. Place the cheese and potato skewers in the griddle and cook over the coals for about 2 mins on each side. If they over-char, move the griddle to the cooler side of the grill rack.
Add the vinegar to the oil and garlic remaining in the dish and whisk to mix. Toss in the beans, herbs and spring onions, with the cooked halloumi. Serve with the potato skewers laid alongside.

They make small quantities of incredible olive oils and Kalamata table olives. The passionate husband and wife team love fresh and natural olive products, they pick their olives by hand and all products are made by them on the farm.

Last week they started the 2012 Olive Harvest and they have super fresh oil that they will be bringing to the market tomorrow for people to taste. It is very unique to be able to taste oil straight from the press. Ususally it is something only the olive farmers are able to do. This oil is very, very green as fresh oils are, it has a raw olive smell and the taste is fruity and fresh. Come and taste this Leccino oil that (just last Wednesday) was still olives growing on trees in Stellenbosch. They have filtered a small amount of Leccino oil which they will be selling at the market tomorrow.

Earth Fair Market goes green for St Patrick's Day

In line with Earth Fair’s overall vision of changing the way people shop and supporting small local producers, we are thrilled about the growing number of shoppers at the market. Many who used to come for lunch and the buzz are now dedicated market grocery shoppers and this excites us a lot! It is wonderful to see the combination of tourists, judges, reporters, office and council workers and even some celebrities frequenting our market every week. We couldn’t ask for a better backdrop than the beautiful historical buildings of our city.

Another factor that makes the market so special is that in many ways it is a return to our roots. The Company Gardens originally provided fresh fruit and vegetables to passing ships and Greenmarket Square was somewhere where farmers could sell their produce. That’s why upper St George’s Mall in the historic heart of Cape Town is the ideal location. We are very proud and grateful to be included in our beautiful city centre in such a way.

We have many people to thank for getting us to where we are, including the Cape Town Partnership/ City Centre Improvement District, Cape Town Tourism and the Upper St Georges’ Mall Forum comprising a number of city centre companies, including urban developers Eurocape and the Taj Cape Town. The Forum’s objective is to promote the Cape Town CBD as one to rival that of other popular city centre experiences around the world.

A special thanks also to Aoife Macken, Andrew Currell, Danny Diliberto and of course all the talented and dedicated traders.

Rain or shine we are at St Georges Mall every Thursday from 11-4pm. (When it rains we move inside the Mandela Rhodes Place.) Join us this Thursday to enjoy the sound of the Marimba Band and to celebrate with us!

We have swopped the roses for the daisies and the commercialism for good ‘ol fashioned hippie values of self love and expression. Join us for live music, a love hamper giveaway, free hugs and to support our earth lovin ethical traders!

Whether you are a hippie or not, the guiding principles are so cool and in line with many philosophies to make the world a better place…. We found some of these on wikihow.com

• Be open-minded and liberal
• Listen to hippie music
• Be organic
• Don’t pollute
• Wear colorful clothing
• Protest against violence, weapons, racism, unfair laws and minority discrimination
• Grow your hair and be natural
• Learn a martial art such as tai chi, but remember you are doing it because of the eastern philosophy behind it, it is not to be exploited for harming others
• Just be yourself! Have any religion and believe in anything you wish. There’s no ground rules or regulations on being a hippie that you must follow.
• Becoming a hippie does not restrict you to the steps above. It is a general guide on how hippies were in the past generations. You may stretch and experiment with your own style(s), for example, wearing earrings, lip gloss, and creating your own food diet.
• Try to make peace in any arguments. Be the mediator for issues and see if you can help people by listening and giving advice.
• Just because past generations of hippies have smoked marijuana doesn’t mean you have to; while it may cause short term memory loss, it is also illegal in most countries and could possibly send you to a state prison.

Join us this Saturday at Tokai for lots of loving fun!