{"id":8158,"date":"2026-08-31T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/?p=8158"},"modified":"2026-08-31T07:04:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T05:04:00","slug":"harvesting-the-ocean-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/articles\/harvesting-the-ocean-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvesting the Ocean, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Seaweed Farming, South Africa&#8217;s Green Gold Beneath the Waves<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"734\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"8159\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/46-734x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/46-734x1024.png 734w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/46-215x300.png 215w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/46-768x1072.png 768w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/46-1101x1536.png 1101w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/46-1468x2048.png 1468w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/46-1024x1429.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/46-scaled.png 1835w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 734px) 100vw, 734px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"734\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"8160\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/47-734x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/47-734x1024.png 734w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/47-215x300.png 215w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/47-768x1072.png 768w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/47-1101x1536.png 1101w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/47-1468x2048.png 1468w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/47-1024x1429.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/47-scaled.png 1835w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 734px) 100vw, 734px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seaweed farming is rapidly becoming one of the most exciting agricultural opportunities on Earth. Often described as one of the fastest growing forms of aquaculture, it has the potential to supply food, create employment, support industry, and strengthen coastal economies while working in harmony with nature. As the global population continues to grow and agricultural land becomes increasingly limited, the ocean offers an opportunity that has remained largely untapped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,16],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-8158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agricultural","category-articles","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8162,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8158\/revisions\/8162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}