On the Garden Route, farmers' markets have sprung up. The best are Harvest Time, near Plettenberg Bay, and Wild Oats, near Sedgefield, both open on Saturday mornings. We have a rich heritage of craft and, if you look, you'll find examples of fantastic weaving, baskets, beadwork, carving, pottery and other innovative crafts all over our country. A truly heartwarming aspect of our creativity is the amazing things we can do with waste products and free materials. Metal sculptures made largely from used beverage cans, aerosol tins, wire and other scrap, are a feature of the streets of all our cities but this art is best represented in the Eastern Cape, near the town of Cradock.

Here you will find windmills up to two metres tall made and aeroplanes with "real" propellers, which actually go round. Women on the Move, an initiative by unemployed women on the Garden Route, has started making decorative articles from the bark of the alien black wattle tree - providing themselves with an income and hastening the demise of this despised invader plant. Plastic bags (the scourge of Africa) are woven into funky hats and mats; and every day, on the side of the road, you'll see some new, innovative way of utilising a common material. Our creativity knows no bounds. So come and explore it - with a mind that knows no bounds.