Sithole planting Spinach
Sitholes are making sure they will have healthy vegetables to harvest and eat from their garden. We trust that this spinach and beetroot they have planted today will grow big and bring delicious food into the house.
Community upliftment
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Nursery for UBI
On the 06/06/2025, the Union Bible Institute in Pietermaritzburg had a wonderful day, when Emseni Farming officially donated a seedling nursery to them. The former principal of the Bible college, Dr. Rev. Mnisi was thankful for this nursery. He had spent two days visiting the Kwasizabantu Mission with an aim of doing a seedling workshop….
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Bonlé Netball Tournament
On Saturday, 17 May 2025, Bonlé had the honour of hosting a Junior Netball tournament for 7 of the surrounding schools; Bonginkosi Primary School, Khomba Primary School, Zamazisa Primary School, Shebe Primary School, Kranskop Primary School, Domino Servite School (DSS), Ocheni Primary School accepted the invite to compete for the Bonlé Netball trophy. The beautiful…
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Fruitful Cedar Garden
25/06/2025 – a promising Cedar International Academy garden. If you love your gardening, you get this promising results. On 7 May 2025, the Cedar students happily harvested beautiful spinach, cabbage and beetroot. The garden at Cedar International Academy is flourishing. The first healthy, fresh and beautiful spinach is harvested on the 01 April 2025. The…
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Diverse Garden in the backyard of Phakathi Family
The backyard of the Phakathi family is a fruitful place – there are banana plants, a guava tree, and sugar cane. Three boys braved the rain, prepared a vegetable bed and with the help of Emseni Farming, cabbages, green peppers and chillies were added to the family supply.
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Planting Course at PMB
It was a joyous occasion on Saturday 26/04/2025 when Emseni Farming visited the KwaSizabantu Mission branch, Claridge, Pietermaritzburg. The community members were invited to be educated on agriculture and given spinach, beetroot and cabbage seeds. They were taught how to prepare a planting bed, how to make holes for the seedlings, how far apart these…
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Gardening in Progress
As much as it is important to plant, it is imperative that the plants are looked after and nourished. This involves going into the garden, weeding, watering the plants and applying fertliser. Here, these families are putting sawdust on the ground around the cabbage plants to keep the water from washing away the soil.
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Bonginkosi Primary School planting
Follow these simple steps that the Bonginkosi learners have shown us, for a successful vegetable garden… Preparing the soil… https://www.emseni.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Preparing-the-soil.mp4 Holes for the seedlings… https://www.emseni.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/WhatsApp-Video-2025-03-25-at-09.45.55.mp4 Planting the seedlings – spinach & beetroot Watering the seedlings Learning to grown own seedlings 14 April – watering and monitoring the growing plants https://www.emseni.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/WhatsApp-Video-2025-04-14-at-23.03.45.mp4
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Gorden Garden
On 22 March 2025, Mr Mzi Ndlovu, together with his son, Nqubeko visited the Msinga area to teach a group of 40 community members how to plant vegetable seeds and seedlings. They were glad that they could gain the knowledge of planting using only a small portion of ground or even planting in aQuellé bottles….
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KwaNgubane & KwaNgcamu Gardens
In an open, unused field, the Ngubane family went to work tilling the ground for a place to grow their own vegetables. They prepared the soil with compost, dug the holes, planted the cabbages and beetroot. Now the plants can grow! The Ngcamu family followed suit by preparing their field and planting the seedlings donated…
