Celebrate with Ncumisa – she's expanding!

Ncumisa Mkabile is on the up and up. Last time Food For Mzansi spoke to her she was only farming with spinach (and rightfully called the spinach queen of Khayelitsha, we must add), but a lot has happened since.

A little more than a year later she is also harvesting beautiful crops of shiny green peppers and running a poultry business and small butchery called Yummy Nyama.

Media coverage seems to follow the ever-smiling farmer and although she is delivering produce to a local retailer in Harare, she is still using that good old Insta-talent of hers to get the fruits of her labour to happy customers’ plates.

She has lots to celebrate and no plans to go slow. Her motivation? Simple: “I feed the nation for a living.”

“She was unstoppable not because she did not have failures or doubts but because she continued on despite them.” Photos: Supplied/Ncumisa Mkabile
Best feeling seeing a dream come true. Greenhouse is up and we were busy with the soil preparation today because our green pepper seedlings have arrived and are ready to be put in the ground.
Spinach queen.
Baby green peppers. Almost time to feed the nation.
My babies.
Three weeks and still going strong. I am a poultry farmer.
On 25 February 2021 I took a leap of faith and turned my dream into reality by raising my own chicks from day old. Today marks exactly six weeks and they are ready for consumption.
At the office, doing what I love.
Your lady in farming.
Thank you Spar for trusting me to feed the nation. You can now get my fresh spinach at Spar in Harare.
New spot opened. Four new jobs created in the middle of the pandemic. We are still creating job opportunities and it’s all thanks to you.
The owner and the brand.
Think big. There are unseen forces ready to support your dreams.
Pork meat, fresh from the farm. Deliveries in Khayelitsha, Mfuleni, Eersterivier and Mitchell’s Plain.
Yummy Nyama. The owner and the brand.
She is proof that it can be done.
Finally, I turn 28. As the earth receives the rain and produces good fruit, I pray that on my birthday God will rain down his blessings and opportunities for me, to become fruits of prospering and greatness.