{"id":7640,"date":"2025-10-09T17:28:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.xtranet.co.ke\/Homegrown\/?p=7640"},"modified":"2025-10-09T17:28:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:28:35","slug":"how-hvn-is-championing-organic-and-indigenous-farming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.xtranet.co.ke\/Homegrown\/how-hvn-is-championing-organic-and-indigenous-farming\/","title":{"rendered":"How HVN is Championing Organic and Indigenous Farming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1328\" data-end=\"1680\">In many Kenyan villages, farming is more than a livelihood\u2014it\u2019s a way of life. Yet rising input costs and overreliance on imported solutions have threatened food security and farmer resilience. The <strong data-start=\"1526\" data-end=\"1563\">Homegrown Volunteer Network (HVN)<\/strong> is changing this narrative by reviving indigenous farming practices that are both cost-effective and eco-friendly.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1682\" data-end=\"2009\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In many Kenyan villages, farming is more than a livelihood\u2014it\u2019s a way of life. Yet rising input costs and overreliance on imported solutions have threatened food security and farmer resilience. The Homegrown Volunteer Network (HVN) is changing this narrative by reviving indigenous farming practices that are both cost-effective and eco-friendly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.xtranet.co.ke\/Homegrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.xtranet.co.ke\/Homegrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.xtranet.co.ke\/Homegrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.xtranet.co.ke\/Homegrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.xtranet.co.ke\/Homegrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.xtranet.co.ke\/Homegrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.xtranet.co.ke\/Homegrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.xtranet.co.ke\/Homegrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.xtranet.co.ke\/Homegrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.xtranet.co.ke\/Homegrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}