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Make money in your yard

Market gardening

In Zambia, turning a backyard garden into a small, income-generating project is incredibly common—and highly rewarding. From small-scale veg patches to community stalls, here is how you can step up from home gardener to micro-producer and make your garden pay for itself.

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The Business Directory is a handy resource for finding gardening businesses, plants, and accessories.

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A community for small-scale farmers to connect, share insights, and learn how to transform traditional farming into a profitable commercial business.

The Radical Farmer," is a Zambian computer engineer turned award-winning organic agriculturalist who champions climate-smart, sustainable food systems and inspires youths across Africa to embrace farming.

Mondo Farms is an emerging Zambian agribusiness venture based in Chongwe that specializes in large-scale commercial vegetable production for the Lusaka market alongside sustainable forestry operations.

Panuka Farm is an award-winning, solar-powered commercial farm and agribusiness training hub in Zambia that specializes in year-round, climate-smart vegetable production and smallholder capacity building.

A page dedicated to the commercial farming operations, livestock management, and agricultural practices of Green Lid Enterprises in Mkushi.

Zambian nurse turned agricultural entrepreneur active on social media, you might be thinking of someone like  Nurse Farmer, who is widely known for sharing her journey from nursing to successful small scale farming.

Farm with Fred is an influential African agronomist and content creator pioneering climate-smart, high-yield agribusiness strategies for modern farmers

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Whether you want to make agriculture a career or you want to spend the weekend learning how to create a good garden. 

 

Explore the range of courses available for these established institutions.

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Selling your produce

Learn from this online community about what to grow and sell in Zambia.

Agribusiness Extension Services, insurance and market linkages.

Weekly updates on agricultural commodity trends in Southern Africa.

An online app selling produxe from Soweto Market in Lusaka.  Check and compare prices.

Find, buy and sell farm inputs.  Recruitment services

As a business, sometimes you have to pivot—and that’s exactly what Ken Luo did.

 

After years in the nursery plant business, Ken transitioned into growing vegetables and herbs, responding to changes in the market and his environment.

In this video, he shares what led to the shift, what he’s learning in the process, and his advice for other entrepreneurs: stay flexible and watch for new opportunities as they arise.
 

How this veggie garden feeds the neighbourhood

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Find out more about clubs and societies around gardening, nature and healthy living.

Find out more about clubs and societies around gardening, nature and healthy living.

Find out more about clubs and societies around gardening, nature and healthy living.

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