The pilot farm
Muldersdrift / Krugersdorp, Gauteng
The Shiriki Pilot Farm is the physical anchor of our model — a working demonstration site, farmer training venue, seed multiplication ground, and processing experiment hub.
After five years of testing locations across Gauteng, the Muldersdrift and Krugersdorp area offers the best combination of access, soil conditions, community proximity, and institutional connections.
Shared, modular, replicable
Infrastructure should serve communities — not lock them out. Every Shiriki infrastructure component is designed to be shared across multiple farmers, locally governed, and financially self-sustaining.
Greenhouse tunnels
Climate-resilient production for frost-sensitive indigenous varieties. Year-round leaf harvest and propagation.
Solar cold storage
Extends shelf life from hours to days. Shared cold-chain access across farmer networks.
Small-scale processing
Mills, dryers, fermentation systems for value-added indigenous crop products.
Aggregation & packhouse
Sorting, grading, and packaging into market-ready supply chains.
Water systems
Drip irrigation, dams, and storage improving climate resilience in farming zones.
Seed multiplication
Community seed systems growing and returning open-pollinated varieties each season.
What We Do
Systems Convening
Connecting farmers, government, civil society, researchers, and local markets to strengthen inclusive agricultural systems.
Pilot Farms & Infrastructure
Indigenous crop demonstration farms, greenhouse tunnels, storage facilities, and small-scale processing units.
Agripreneurship Education & Extension
Practical farming education, agroecology & soil health, business support, and extension training.
Value Addition & Market Access
Processing raw produce into flour, dried foods, and packaged agricultural products for local and regional markets.
Land partners
Landowners with 1–10ha in the Muldersdrift / West Rand area for lease or use partnership. We manage, we improve, we pay.
Research & institutional
Universities, AgriSETA, GDARD, DALRRD — for land access, research collaboration, accreditation pathways, and extension co-delivery.
Funders
GIZ, UNDP/GEF, IDC, SANBI, NEF — food security, biodiversity, and climate-focused grant co-applications and blended finance.
Market partners
Chefs, restaurants, retailers, and processors seeking authentic indigenous ingredient sourcing from a documented agroecological system.