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  • Jip Santen

    Project manager (she/her)

    Hello! My name is Jip. I recently got my bachelor's degree in Environmental Sciences and started at Mediamatic shortly after. My work here is centered in the aquaponics greenhouse and the garden.

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  • EC as a parameter for water salinity

    Monitoring the quality of het Oosterdok

    As we are adding canal water to the aquaponics system, we are monitoring several parameters relating to salinity. One of them is EC. Measuring the EC is quick, easy and inexpensive. However, there...

  • Watering the garden

    Keep the garden green in summer!

    As the sun is showing up more often we need to start watering the garden. The garden will have to be watered almost every day during the dry period. This will happen at least every Monday, Wednesday...

  • First canal water addition in aquaponics

    Grain of Salt

    After diving deeper into (the scarce) research articles that have been published about the topic of saline agriculture, we are now adding canal water to aquaponics. This goes hand in hand with...

  • Visiting the Volkstuin of Almere

    In Almere lives the largest Suriname community in the Netherlands. In this Volkstuin they bring their native crops and grow them under the glass, where the climate reaches the optimum conditions for...

  • Oyster leaf

    A fishy substitute for our plant-based kitchen

    Oyster leaf ( Mertensia maritima) has been given its name because the leaves resemble the taste of oysters. Therefore, the leaves of this plant can be an interesting addition to plant-based dishes to...

  • Salt tolerant plants in aquaponics

    Exploring new plants as an adaptation strategy

    As a part of our project ' Grain of Salt ' we are researching plant species that are more tolerant towards salty conditions. These plants have special mechanisms to withstand higher concentrations of...

  • Sea Aster

    A salty Amsterdam local

    Sea Aster (Aster tripolium) is a salt tolerant plant that can be found in the Netherlands at salt marshes near the coast, but also at the banks of het IJ in Amsterdam. The plant takes up the salt...

  • The green gold

    Celebrating our Wasabi's 2nd birthday

    After some cold and rainy months in aquaponics, we were overjoyed to see the first aquaponics plant in bloom. This early bloomer has got to be a bit of a diva, as most plants are not showing any...

  • Closing the Tap

    Turning to the canal to reduce our tapwater consumption

    The goal is simple. We want to stop using clean tapwater to irrigate the plants at Dijkspark and instead use a watersource that may be considered unconventional: the canal. The common perception of...

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