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Toby & Abby’s Café brings Botswana’s Indigenous Foods to the front

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A new chapter in sustainable agribusiness and indigenous food innovation opened in Gaborone last Friday with the launch of Toby & Abby’s Café, a container-style café dedicated exclusively to Botswana’s indigenous ingredients.

Located opposite the Security Services Headquarters in Bontleng, near the CID traffic lights, the café is owned by agripreneur Lere Tapologo. It offers full meals, snacks, and beverages made entirely from locally sourced fruits and crops. These include moretlwa, moretologa, mmilo, mowana (baobab), morula, and indigenous melons such as lerotse.

Tapologo, who also runs Tripple A Farm, said the café was established to celebrate Setswana cuisine while addressing persistent market-access challenges faced by small producers and agro-processors.

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