This article narrates the story of Movai Matombo, a 57-year-old woman smallholder farmer who began practicing agroecology in 2010. Matombo resides in the Shashe region of Mashava, Masvingo province, Zimbabwe, where she learnt about agroecology farming, a technique that produces a high yield while conserving the soil and the environment. "When I came to Shashe with my husband, I knew about farming, but I was disregarding certain traditions that my mother and grandmother had taught me." Farmers in Shashe convinced me that this farming was not old. "I'm now doing agroecology," Matombo said.