Happy World Food Day (WFD)! World Food Day was first celebrated on the 16th of Oct 1981. To celebrate World Food Day, I thought I’ll share some interesting facts I came across with you Did you know :-)… WFD is celebrated annually in honour of the date in 1945 that the Food and Agriculture Organization […]
During one of our strategy sessions, my Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) said that we should consider selling our produce through vending machines. I thought that was a really cool idea, however I felt it was impossible. After reading this article I feel it is ‘almost impossible’ and not ‘entirely impossible’ 🙂 . Fast forward a […]
It’s been a while and a lot has been going on, the past few weeks have been pretty challenging and a lot of arguing, laughing, fighting and reconciling has been going on…haha…Really and truly this journey has been something. It really has, I’m grateful but the other day I caught myself thinking ‘if I knew […]
So during my daily research on agriculture I stumbled across this pretty cool website which I bookmarked:Â http://www.scidev.net/ A lot of interesting articles and I thought I’d share one of it with yall. It was titled Making Agriculture attractive to the youth in Africa. This topic is really hot, there are a lot of conversations going […]
So I just found out about this program called Shamba (small farm) shape up. I watched it and found it quite interesting and educative and really enjoyed it. So I figured I’d let you all know about it. It’s aimed at East African rural farmers, however I think every farmer can learn a few things […]
Meet my biggest investor aka mama and her backyard garden 🙂Yup there she is showing it to you….. She started cultivating cherry tomatoes, sweet peppers and melon over a month ago (not sure what happened to the melons). So the story behind her starting this garden is that she wanted to carry out an experiment with […]
By 2050 we’ll need to feed 2 billion more people…. So doing my normal rounds of research on the internet and stumbled on this really interesting article I thought I’d share. So here is a summary of the article…. According to the article, our need for food poses one of the biggest dangers to the […]
A lot has gone on since my last update from the farm. Matter of fact this post is 2 weeks late. Shame on me but what’s a girl to do…too many “excuses” have prevented me from blogging. I’m glad to bring you old but relevant news. So we headed down to the farm…. Work on […]
During my research on my go-to-market strategy I read about quite a few strategies from farmers market, to selling to middle men who then sell to the end-user, direct selling e.t.c. I also read about the Pick Your Own (PYO) strategy. Basically this means that you open your farm up to the public to pick […]
Make sure you find me..haha…In the unlikely event that you didn’t spot me…that’s me… I think the logo is all kinds of impressive… A while ago a group of young entrepreneurs (15-35) were invited by the African Union to help set up a continental Youth Entrepreneurship Network (YEN). Below is a summary from the literature […]
