{"id":507,"date":"2017-11-10T08:15:48","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T08:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autopot.co.uk\/garden\/2017\/11\/10\/autopot-kenya-thing-goes-way-top\/"},"modified":"2023-06-02T14:09:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T14:09:01","slug":"autopot-kenya-thing-goes-way-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/autopot.co.uk\/garden\/2017\/11\/10\/autopot-kenya-thing-goes-way-top\/","title":{"rendered":"AutoPot Kenya &#8211; this thing goes all the way to the top!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late in July the AutoPot greenhouse project&nbsp;nr. Siaya, Kenya&nbsp;received a visit from Rachel Ruto the Vice President of Kenya\u2019s wife and her staff. Nam Oneko, our project leader, was on hand to explain the ways in which our products can be of benefit growers in the region.Rachel is a patron to many womens&#8217; organisations and AutoPot intends to partner up with her office to bring a simple and efficient water irrigation system to villages across Kenya. The systems make such a&nbsp;low impact on water supply and require zero electricity so they can easily be endorsed.<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/><p>In these splendid images we see tomatoes, capsicum and sweet melon being grown in the easy2grow. In Kenya temperatures fluctuate from a cool, tranquil 18C at night to robust, shouty midday 38C. A big challenge is Relative Humidity that starts daily at 99% at 5am and drops to less than 50% at midday. Even so, without power, environmental controls and with zero water wasted Nam\u2019s crops are flourishing in this his first ever commercial<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/autopot.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/11\/News-Nov-2017-Nam-Kenya-Visitors-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22897\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">PATRON OF KENYAN WOMENS\u2019 ORGANISATIONS RACHEL RUTO PAYS A FACT FINDING VISIT<\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\"><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/autopot.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/11\/Kenya-Tomatoes-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23022\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Tomatoes a\u2019ripenin\u2019 bare their wonderfully satin skins for the cameras.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\"><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/autopot.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/11\/Kenya-Peppers-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23021\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">If the peppers do know where Nam is they\u2019re not telling.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\"><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/autopot.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/11\/Kenya-Lake-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23018\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Say hiya to Siaya\u2026Beach, Kenya! The greenhouse was completed late in 2016 and has made huge strides already.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\"><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/autopot.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/11\/Kenya-Nam-580x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23020\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Say hello to Nam! This is his very first commercial project.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div><p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late in July the AutoPot greenhouse project nr. Siaya, Kenya received a visit from Rachel Ruto the Vice President of Kenya\u2019s wife and her staff. Nam Oneko, our project leader, was on hand to explain the ways in which our products can be of benefit growers in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel is a patron to many womens&#8217; organisations and AutoPot intends to partner up with her office to bring a simple and efficient water irrigation system to villages across Kenya. The systems make such a low impact on water supply and require zero electricity so they can easily be endorsed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-garden","category-autopot-news-2017"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/autopot.co.uk\/garden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/News-Nov-2017-Nam-Kenya-Main.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/autopot.co.uk\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/autopot.co.uk\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/autopot.co.uk\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autopot.co.uk\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autopot.co.uk\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/autopot.co.uk\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":866,"href":"https:\/\/autopot.co.uk\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions\/866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autopot.co.uk\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/autopot.co.uk\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autopot.co.uk\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autopot.co.uk\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}