Hard work brings free-range success for farmer
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A strong network has helped open up great opportunities in agriculture for Einstein Sibanda.
He augments his chickens’ diets with vegetables and microgreens produced on the farm.
In 2020, after careful experimentation, he expanded production to include free-range pigs.
Einstein Sibanda typifies the spirit of the entrepreneur: combining luck, energy and grit, he has built a booming free-range farming operation on the edge of Simon’s Town in the Western Cape.
Sibanda, who is originally from Zimbabwe, came to South Africa in 2006 in search of greener pastures. “I joined a friend and fellow Zimbabwean in Fish Hoek to work in the restaurant industry, but that didn’t work out, so I decided to go into farming instead,” he recalls.
He crossed paths with UK-born Sam Adams who at the time ran a programme called Start Living Green, which focused on equipping smallholder farmers and urban migrants with the skills
