Community Support
Our farming footprint is based in rural KZN, South Africa where we operate in harmony with our neighbours.
We have several farming and social initiatives where we are constantly active.
Entrepreneurship Initiatives
With the vision from our founder and director, Reverend Erlo Stegen, we developed a community nursery for avocado trees which we sell to emerging farmers at a subsidised price.
We have passed on our acquired knowledge in avocado growing to the farmers, teaching them about soil health, planting and management of orchards so that they can successfully grow their own avocado trees for their families but also as an initiative to start their own avocado growing businesses.
We buy the seeds from these farmers as rootstock for our avocado orchards. When their trees bear fruit, these farmers will be able to sell the avocadoes to Emseni to pack and sell.
Latest Community Involvements
Fun with New Netball Poles
Emseni Farming has started the year with excitement! We have the privilege of giving 5 schools – Shebe, Zamazisa, Ocheni, Kranskop, and Khomba Primary School – so much joy to with new netball poles and balls so that they can play their netball games. See how they play!
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Planting Cabbages, Spinach & Beetroot
At 4 primary schools – Ocheni, Zamazisa, Bonginkosi and Balcomb’s Hill Primary – the school children learnt to plant cabbages, spinach and beetroot today. They prepared the soil, planted and watered the seedlings, hopefully to get a good harvest. Seedling were also given to the children to plant at home. Whoever has the best harvest...
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One Home, One Garden
Emseni Farming encourages every home to have their own garden. This is the Nxumalo family’s well-established garden. They will be harvesting a diverse and beautiful crop of beetroot, cabbages, mielies, peas and even strawberries! The Ndlovu family has also established a garden for their home and are harvesting lots of potatoes today. This is Sthe...
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Christmas Function for Senior Citizens
Bonlé dairy in partnership with DR N Sibiya and MN Foundation held a senior citizen Christmas Event on the 23rd of December 2024. Grandmothers and grandfathers over 70 years received a Bible and a drinking yoghurt donated by Bonlé, an aQuellé-branded umbrella, and a Radio Khwezi calendar. They also took part in planting their own...
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How to Grow Your Own Veggies
With 5000 children attending the youth conference at Kwasizabantu Mission, we took the opportunity to teach them how to grow their own veggies. A pamphlet and packets of seeds were given to each child to take along and plant at home. Below is a guide for you to try plant your own vegetables as well!...
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Planting Trees at Shebe Primary School
Up on the hill of Shebe Primary School where the sun is bright and intense, the school governing body and management were delighted to plant various shade and fruit trees in their school grounds, grown and donated by Emseni Farming. Together with Mr Mfiki Sokhela, the trees were carefully placed and planted so that in...
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Untunjambili Circuit High-Flyer Awards
The end of the third term for the matrics has finally arrived – they awaited their results with nervousness mixed with exitement. 17 October 2024 marks the awards ceremony for the excelling students of the schools that participated in the Untunjambili Circuit High-flyers program. Bonlé and the MN Foundation sponsored this function and together congratulate...
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Vegetables Ready for Sale
This is the vegetable farmer from Matimatolo. She has planted her vegetables and through care and advice received on how to plant, has grown enough for her own supply and to sell to the community for an income.
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Happily Harvesting
The hard work at Nqubeko Ndlovu gardening has paid off and today the garderners could happily harvesting their healthy spinach.
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Nene Family Gardens
These beautiful and big cabbages come from the gardens of the hard-working hands of the Nene Family. Emseni Farming gave the seedlings and with eagerness the family members planted their seedlings and are now able to harvest a healthy crop of vegetables.
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Cabbage Planting
On this hot and sunny day, cabbages were planted at Shebe Primary School. Through this gardening program, the children learn how to plant and grow their own vegetables.
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Upbuilding Learners of Umphumulo Primary School
At Umphumulo Primary School, the MN Foundation together with Bonlé reached out to learners with an emphasis on bullying awareness. The children were encouraged to change their habits and were delighted when they received a drinking yoghurt and a special Bonlé book that depicts how we produce milk and milk products.
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Bonnie Visits the children of Cordwall Primary School
Today, 23 August 2024, Bonlé Dairy spent the morning visiting the learners of Cordwall Primary School with the aim of teaching them about our milk production. The atmosphere rang with joy as the learners were happy to meet Bonnie, our lovely cow mascot, at their school premises. After the lesson, the learners took group photos...
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Top Achiever Badges
On the 12th and 13th of August, Bonlé visited 6 schools to hand out top achiever badges to Matriculants who achieved distinctions in their subjects at the end of the June term. By congratulating the learners for their achievements so far, we aim to encourage them and all other learners to study well and achieve...
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2 Family Gardens
2 Families are helped with vegetable seedlings to plant and grow their own food.
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Spelling Bee and Poetry Competition
MN Foundation in partnership with Bonlé organised a successful Poetry competition and spelling Bee event. Three schools entered for Bonlé Poetry Competition. Wendy Khanyile, a former student of Kranskop Primary school (2023) won the Poetry Competition. Fifteen (15) schools entered for Spelling Bee competition. Anele from Balcombs Primary achieved the first position for spelling Bee...
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As Emseni Farming, we are part of a greater team that hosts thousands of children for a youth week twice a year and also assists with dishing out food, preparing accommodation, helping with activities for the sports day. Our farming efforts aim to create the means for this large event, where the children are given food, a sleeping place, hot water and biblical teaching for free.
