Agricultural Entrepreneurship

We provide business and entrepreneurship skills through strategic workshops to develop small businesses through agriculture.

At Nourish Eco Village our goal is to create sustainable change - and have long-term impact in the spheres of sustainability, conservation and community resilience. We believe that by working to grow resilient wildlife communities that are healthy, educated, and have access to employment opportunities, we can break the poverty cycle and thus impact the poaching coming out of rural areas.

The community of Sigagule and the surrounding rural villages in the Acornhoek area of Mpumalanga struggle daily with even the most basic elements of life. Access to running water, and electricity is a difficulty most face daily. There is a high unemployment rate, many children have access to schooling, but education levels are extremely low at schools, and the biggest economic contributor to the area - tourism - is out of reach for many. It is in this context that Nourish works.

Our projects are all interlinked and holistic, in order to help a community grow in all aspects. Our programming focuses are Education, Enterprise and Tourism.

Agriculture is still very active in the rural areas but mostly consists of subsistence farming with very little successful income or businesses being created. Our Agricultural Entrepreneurship program tackles this issue by providing training in basic business and entrepreneur skills, agri processing, and sustainable and contemporary farming techniques.
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The Eco village is our classroom and showroom

As your focus will be on agricultural entrepreneurship you will spend a lot of time at our training farm, working with the product development team, and visiting and assisting local small agri-businesses. From 8am to 4pm.

Spending time on our training farm:
* Agro-Ecology training, very similar to permaculture, but more suited to African conditions,
* Helping at the farm and assisting with daily tasks.
* Manufacturing products from our farm such Pickle Beetroots, Monkey Orange syrup, gluten free flour and hot sauce.
* Exploring new recipes with Indigenous fruit & vegetables

As well spending time with our outreach agri-businesses:
* Spending time with our local satellite businesses helping with their projects (locally made hot sauce, hydroponics etc..)
* Assisting local businesses with marketing, financial or operational support if and where applicable
* Enterprise Workshop facilitation and assistance
* Hydroponics training

This opportunity is like no other, as you are based at the Eco Village itself and will experience Africa like you never have before.
Volunteers will stay at Shik Shack Backpackers situated on the same property as the Nourish Eco Village.