Cape Town Daily Photo

Lettuce Field

This is the second last photo from our series about Joostenbergvlakte, and a photo that I’d considered using for yesterday’s theme day, titled “Contrast”.

If you’re used to living in a large city then this kind of scene probably seems quite unusual. What’s cool about Cape Town is that farms and smallholdings like this one aren’t too far from the city centre, which means that within half an hour you can move from the inner city, through leafy suburbia, to wide-open farms.

What I found interesting about this little field is that the farmer has planted green lettuce in between his two rows of red lettuce. It doesn’t seem particularly practical – I mean, surely all the red lettuce will be harvested together? All I can think is that he has a bit of an artistic eye, and likes to keep his fields pretty.