Farmers Market

What separates a competent produce vendor from an average one comes down to detail most people don't think about. Farmers Market should be judged on whether vegetables are actually crisp when you get them home, not just when you buy them—that reflects how they're stored and how long they've sat. Whether fruit ripens predictably or goes from hard to mouldy overnight matters. Whether the vendor knows why a tomato tastes like water this week versus last week. Whether they rotate stock visibly and remove damaged produce before it spreads. In Sandton, where customers have options, real competence looks like understanding botany as much as commerce—knowing that bruising speeds ripening, that ethylene gas matters, that some vegetables need cold and others need warmth. It's the difference between shopping somewhere and actually trusting what you're buying.