This one hectare hub is run by five women. The hub has an onsite aquaponics centre. Depending on the season, vegetables such has cabbage, sweet potatoes, broccoli, lettuce, spinach, beetroot, butternut and cauliflower are grown. Seedlings are distributed to nearby home gardens, at Mawubuye Land Rights Forum meetings and on occasion to surrounding hubs such as the Genadendal hub. The site has a worm farm which produces worm team which is used as produce organic fertiliser for soil amendments. The hub has a contract to supply the provincial Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development with 50kg of spinach a week.
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