STORMS RIVER VILLAGE MARKET

A monthly market will be held at Storms River village from Saturday, October 4. The aim of the market is to provide an opportunity for local people to sell their wares. It is hoped to gain the participation of the various cottage industries in the area and to stimulate new business opportunities.

Preparations are under way for the village market.
I helped to make a banner for the market at Brink
Bester Studio, where local artists Johan Brink
and Elzette Bester create their art.
(Photo: Elzette Bester)

Ashley Wentworth has made available the area at the entrance to Storms River village, next to Storms River Information Office, the Bistro at Bitou and Bitou Art Gallery. Sites will be available free of charge to residents of Tsitsikamma and will be allotted on a first-come, first-served basis. Participants are welcome to share stands.

The market will be held on the first Saturday of every month from 9am to noon. In the event of bad weather, it will take place on the following Saturday.

In order to provide this opportunity to as many locals as possible, the market will be a combination of a car-boot sale and market stalls.

This will be the place to sell, or shop for, handmade gifts, toys and clothes; produce (plants, fruit, veggies); homemade food and drink; second-hand goods and clothes; and re-used and recycled goods.

Progress with the banner...
(Photo: Susan Kemp)

Exchange those white elephants for some cash in hand - or buy Tant Hanna Cola's famed ginger beer, support young entrepreneur Anna Reed who will be flipping pancakes, and make use of the Bistro at Bitou's offer of discounted rates on breakfast, light meals, coffee, tea and cakes.

No cheap, imported goods will be allowed. If new goods are sold, they must be South African.

Contact Elzette Bester at (084) 78 00 009 to book a stall. Traders need to bring a table to display wares, their own chairs and umbrellas or gazebos, and a black bag for rubbish.