As 3rd year engineering students at the University of Johannesburg enrolled for a course called Materials science, we have been given the assignment of going to Soweto as a group of 20 engineering students to find out what small scale farms may be having problems with. Whether it be irrigation, seed planting or pest control etc. Once we have a clear idea of what the problem is we will have to use the knowledge we have acquired in our degrees to come up with an affordable yet effective solution.