Founder Spotlight: Wyness Ng'ona — From a Market Bench to Lehazin Harvest Hub
Originally featured as a 265 Business Angels Founder Spotlight on our social media channels, September 14, 2026 — including video. Expanded for the blog with additional Malawi agrifood context.
What happens when a problem you see at home becomes the foundation for a business?
For Wyness Ng'ona, it started with a familiar challenge in agriculture: good produce going to waste because there wasn't a reliable market for it.
Today, Wyness is the 26-year-old Founder and CEO of Lehazin Harvest Hub, an agrifood business connecting Malawian farmers and food processors with consumers through offline and online channels.
At a Glance
Lehazin Harvest Hub sells local products, offers delivery to homes and businesses, and operates a fresh juice bar designed to put more agricultural produce to use.
The vision is bigger than selling food. Lehazin wants to help farmers access better markets, increase their income, reduce food waste and make authentic Malawian products easier to access.
The journey so far tells its own story:
From selling on a bench, to renting a shop, to building an online marketplace at lehazin.com — Wyness is turning a personal experience with agriculture into a growing business with a wider purpose.
Based in the Northern Region (Mzuzu), Lehazin today lists across fruits, vegetables, value-added products and pantry staples, with WhatsApp ordering and delivery built around how Malawians actually buy.
For 265 Business Angels, this is exactly the kind of founder story worth putting in front of the ecosystem: young, operationally grounded, solving a commercial need today while building market infrastructure for tomorrow.
A Business Built Around a Simple Problem
For many Malawian farmers, growing food is only half the battle.
The other half is finding a reliable buyer before harvest spoils, negotiating a fair price without cold-chain leverage, and reaching urban consumers who increasingly want convenience, quality and traceability.
Lehazin simplifies it into one hub:
Offline + Online Sales
- Local products retail — sourcing from farmers and food processors and selling through physical retail
- Home and business delivery — taking orders via lehazin.com and WhatsApp (+265 992 379 742) and delivering fresh produce
- Fresh juice bar — turning perishable fruit that might otherwise be wasted into ready-to-drink value-added product
That last piece matters. Juice is not just a menu item. It is a post-harvest strategy: converting short-shelf-life produce into higher-margin, longer-life product while creating a consumer brand.
What's Next
Wyness is looking for investors and strategic partners to support:
- Construction of greenhouses for year-round production
- Installation of irrigation systems to de-risk rain-fed supply
- Expansion of the piggery for diversified protein and income
- Overall business growth, systems and working capital
She is also seeking mentorship and strategic guidance to take Lehazin Harvest Hub to the next level — from founder-led hustle to structured, investable growth.
Why This Matters Now in Malawi
Agri-food is Malawi's backbone — contributing roughly 22% of GDP, about 64% of the labour force and around 80% of export earnings. Yet most rural households earn less than 20% of income from their own harvest, and youth and women face the steepest climb from subsistence to commercial farming.
Three shifts make Lehazin's timing important:
- Post-harvest loss is a market failure. Without reliable buyers, cold chain and processing, good produce rots on-farm while urban buyers import or pay premiums. Aggregation + delivery + processing, as Lehazin does, directly attacks that gap.
- Greenhouse and irrigated horticulture is proving itself. Commercial greenhouse ventures near Kamuzu International Airport — 27–30 hectares under joint-venture models — are now benchmarking year-round fresh vegetable supply for domestic and export markets. Lehazin's greenhouse ambition follows the same logic at SME scale: control supply, quality and seasonality.
- Value addition is policy. From the Malawi 2063 focus on agro-processing to World Bank-backed commercialization programmes (AGCOM, Food Systems Resilience), the push is consistent: move from raw sale to processed, branded, traceable product. A juice bar plus pantry staples plus online storefront is a grassroots version of that transition.
- Young women founders are rewriting the chain. Programmes from UN Women's greenhouse cooperatives to UNDP/FAO youth agribusiness work show the same pattern: when young women get production assets, business skills and market links, incomes and community spillovers follow. Wyness — bench to shop to marketplace at 26 — is that pattern made concrete.
Lehazin's commercial engine proves Malawian agrifood retail can be modern and local at once; its farm-side expansion plan proves the same business can pull smallholders up with it.
The Ask
Lehazin Harvest Hub is looking to connect with two groups:
Investors and strategic partners
To finance greenhouses, irrigation, piggery expansion and growth capital — plus mentorship on systems, finance and scale. If you back agrifood SMEs with a clear farm-to-consumer loop, talk to Wyness.
Farmers, processors and buyers
If you grow, process or buy local food — or want reliable delivery for your home or business — Lehazin is looking for supply and demand partners. Order via lehazin.com or WhatsApp +265 992 379 742.
Learn more: https://lehazin.com
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