{"id":34,"date":"2016-07-15T14:03:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T12:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/SAFENews\/?p=34"},"modified":"2016-07-25T14:14:22","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T12:14:22","slug":"south-african-farm-successfully-grows-cold-loving-strawbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/safe.co.za\/SAFENews\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"South African farm successfully grows cold-loving strawbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/SAFENews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/strawbs.jpg\" alt=\"strawbs\" width=\"256\" height=\"197\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cappeny Estates farm in Ballito, a town about 40 kilometers north of Durban is making history: strawberries, which generally grow best in low temperature climates, are thriving there.<\/p>\n<p>When former project manager Xolani Gumede and his wife started the farm in 2013 in a hot and humid region seen to be hostile for growing the fruit, they were not sure their plan would work.<\/p>\n<p>Today Xolani is making profits from his 17 hectare farm, where he grows various varieties of strawberries that seem to be doing well here.<\/p>\n<p>His farm is the first commercial project of its kind in KwaZulu-Natal.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freshplaza.com\/article\/160734\/South-African-farm-successfully-grows-cold-loving-strawbs\" target=\"_blank\">Read more on this<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cappeny Estates farm in Ballito, a town about 40 kilometers north of Durban is making history: strawberries, which generally grow best in low temperature climates, are thriving there. When former &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[19,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/safe.co.za\/SAFENews\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/safe.co.za\/SAFENews\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/safe.co.za\/SAFENews\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safe.co.za\/SAFENews\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safe.co.za\/SAFENews\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/safe.co.za\/SAFENews\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/safe.co.za\/SAFENews\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/safe.co.za\/SAFENews\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safe.co.za\/SAFENews\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safe.co.za\/SAFENews\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}