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Farm crime: Eugene Simons (on the right), owner of Algina Wholesale Plant Nursery, and her husband, Alan, worry that their once thriving small-scale nursery won’t survive another incident of crime. Photo: Duncan Masiwa/Food For Mzansi

Farm crime: 6 weeks, 6 break-ins, 0 arrests

by Duncan Masiwa

25th March 2021

To an outsider, it may look like a typical day at the busy nursery of an award-winning Western Cape farming couple. Behind Eugene and Alan Simons’ smile, however, lies many ...

Everyone knows that farmers work 365 days a year. They don't get special breaks for Valentine's Day, and have to make the best of every moment together. Photo: Supplied/Food For Mzansi

Valentine’s Day: Farmers’ real-life love stories

by Noluthando Ngcakani

13th February 2021

Farmers should be extra selective with their hearts, jokes Free State farmer Nick Serfontein about Valentine’s Day. He says, “You don’t want to deal with a lot of stress (in ...

WATCH: Faith and family has carried Alan Simons through adversity

by Staff Reporter

29th January 2020

The day Alan Simons was retrenched from his job as an agricultural worker, his life changed forever. Now, fourteen years later, he runs his own lucrative family farming business with ...

Alan and Eugene Simons run three successful agribusinesses, including Algina’s Wholesale Nursery in Firgrove, Cape Town.

PODCAST: Farming power couple reinvent themselves after retrenchment

by Staff Reporter

12th February 2020

In 2004 farming couple Alan and Eugene Simons were retrenched from their jobs as agricultural workers. Grappling for ways to put food on their table, pay their debt and make ...

Agri-worker goes from retrenchment to award-winning entrepreneur

by Duncan Masiwa

29th October 2019

When Eugene Simons was retrenched in 2004, along with her husband who worked at the same organic farm, all she thought about was her next move. Instead of retaliating with ...

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