The Coronation Growing Entrepreneurs Programme, in partnership with the South African Institute for Entrepreneurship, continues to make significant strides in local economic development, job creation and poverty alleviation among small scale agricultural farmers. Since inception in 2004, a total of 320 agricultural development facilitators have been trained and continue to be provided with ongoing support. By 2011, these trained agricultural development facilitators had assisted more than 3 800 small-scale black emerging farmers across South Africa, with agricultural and business skills and knowledge required to run their farms sustainably. The programme has provided the knowledge and the practical tools to enable a number of previous subsistence farmers to maximise the potential of their land and become more commercially viable. Over the past year, the Coronation Growing Entrepreneurs Programme extended its reach into a number of schools within the areas in which the programme operates. This has resulted in the development of sustainable garden programmes that help provide food for the school feeding schemes.