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They’re a power team on the urban agriculture and agroprocessing scene. Meet Urban Grown co-founders Simbarashe Chimhandamba and Nonhlanhla Mokoena-Chimhandamba , who began farming in 2015 under protected covers on land in Diepsloot, northern Johannesburg. The married couple recently expanded with open land farming in Pretoria, servicing customers within a 70km radius.
Nonhlanhla says because they wished young people knew that farming was not a “dead career”, they started Urban Grown to farm in the city and close to their customers in urban areas. “City Lodge was our first customer and funded us to become agroprocessors and farmers through their programme,” says Nonhlanhla.In the early days of the business, he went for a year without earning a salary “but I did it because I believed in it”, says Simba.The sad reality is that there are not enough black commercial farmers, especially within the Gauteng region.
“The sad reality is that there are not enough black commercial farmers, especially within the Gauteng region. You often get mistaken for someone who is a new-dispensation farmer who got free land from the government and that often puts up a wall.”
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