Not many of us can grow enough of our own fruit and veg to be self sufficient and we still have to rely on shops and supermarkets. Maybe we don’t have enough space or our busy lifestyles just don’t afford us enough time to grow everything that we want to.
 Small family run greengrocers usually have good produce that tastes great and has been grown locally too but they are not always grown in an ecological way. Step forward the organic market, up and running for a few years now, it visits the main towns in the gaudalhorce valley on certain weekends every month and is now on in Marbella.
 As well as great fruit and veg there are stalls that sell honey, jams and preserves, organic wine and beer and one stall has rice, chick peas and other dried beans and lots of unusual organic flour for you home bakers out there. For more information on when and where you can find the market go to www.gaudalhorceecologico.com. Please support it if you can, at present it only visits each town once a month, it would be great if it became a regular feature once a week so we have access to organic fruit and veg all the time. 
written by Andy Williams