Receta Pure Good, Cape Town

They say that when one door closes, another one opens and that saying cannot be truer than for Shannon Smuts. When she found herself first out of the Master Chef house after 5 days and still with 7 weeks of her sabbatical left, she started volunteering at the Fountain of Hope farm in Philippi. This farm provides the Baphumelele Children’s Home with fresh produce and is part of the youth program associated with young adults who have been under the care of the home, and are now 18 and no longer wards of the state. On her return to her media job, the space at 21 St. Johns Street became available and Shannon decided to follow her dream and opened Pure Good. To support the farm, Shannon purchases as much as they can offer her. She has had…