You Don’t Need to Wait: A Letter to South Africa’s Future Farmers
You Don’t Need to Wait: A Letter to South Africa’s Future Farmers

If you’re sixteen, seventeen, or eighteen and you already suspect agriculture is where you belong, this is for you. Not for the version of you finishing your degree in five years. For you, right now, this school holiday. You’ve probably been told that your career starts when you get a qualification. That the real learning happens at Cedara, at Elsenburg, at Grootfontein, in a lecture hall with your name on a register. That’s not true, and somewhere you probably already know it isn’t. The most useful thing anyone can tell you at your age is this: agriculture doesn’t check your […]

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