Diseases on your vegetables can cause loss of yield and damage to vegetables, which reduce the quality of your harvest. With warmer weather most smallholders […]
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South African Co-Op Fights For Food Security
This South African co-op started by young people in kwaHlaza, KwaZulu-Natal believes entrepreneurship in agriculture is very important. Lindokuhle Mthembu, chairman of the Zozubhodle Co-operative […]
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The November edition of the SA Smallholder Digital Magazine is now available to read online, or you can download it to read later. Click here […]
Growing and Using African Wormwood
Artemisia afra, commonly known as African wormwood or wilde-als, is a soft aromatic shrub and is one of the most popular medicinal plants in South […]
Try Your Hand At Growing Groundnuts
Growing groundnuts is done commercially in the Northern Cape, Free State, Limpopo and North West. Resource limited farmers, especially in the northern and eastern parts […]
How to Combat Food Waste
We are told that South Africa generates an estimated 12.6 million tonnes of food waste and loss every year. This amounts to a third of […]
Bees and Gum Trees: It’s Complex
Most of us are familiar with Eucalyptus trees, but we might not know of the relationship between bees and gum trees. The gum tree or […]
Latest SA Smallholder Digital Magazine Now Ready For Download
Click here to download the latest edition of the SA Smallholder Magazine, October 2021.
Planting Indigenous Grass For Livestock
A number of the grass species that are used commercially for grazing in South Africa are not indigenous. And, indeed, new non-indigenous species are being […]
Plant the Common Tree of the Year 2021
In 2021 the common tree of the year is Vachellia karroo (Hayne) Banfi & Glasso. Each year, as part of Arbor Month, two trees, one common […]