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.
Infrastructure model
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.
Partner with Shiriki
Four ways to build with us
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.