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  • Image: Saro Van Cleynenbreugel

    Aphidius vespiformis

    This tiny predatory wasp helps control aphids
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  • Biological Control

    The circle of life writ small in our aquaponics greenhouse

    It's all just things eating things in here.

  • Our System

    Dijksgracht 6

    At the beginning of 2015 we started in our new location at the Dijksgracht nr. 6
  • Internship

    Internship: Aquaponics

    Help us to grow vegetables and fish in this ecologically sustainable system!

    As an intern aquaponics you are involved in designing, building and taking care of the systems. You also help with organising the workshops and organise the educational program for schools. We are...

  • Get rich with aquaponics

    Successful plants in our aquaponics greenhouse

    Having an aquaponic system in an unheated greenhouse creates very specific conditions for plants. Some of the plants love it; others not so much. As many of the plants we have sowed have reached...

  • Aquaponics Team

    Pleased to meet you

    Over the years, these people have been building and nurturing our Aquaponics farm. A group of builders, farmers, teachers and designers. Do you want to join the group and learn how to build...

  • Aquaponic Kitchen

    New Zealand Spinach Juice

    Drinking our aquaponic vegetables

  • Field Peas

    Growing field peas in an aquaponics greenhouse

    Although our shade cloth can cool the greenhouse on hot days, it is still nice to have some complete shade inside. We have created some extra shade by just using some string and field peas.

  • Aquaponics Construction

    The siphon and grow lights

    Constructing aquaponics tanks is serious business. While we're working at Mediamatic Fabriek, we're acquiring loads of knowledge we can later share with people, enabling others to make their own...

  • Ladybirds

    A promiscuous cannibalistic insect loved by gardeners

    Lately we have been finding several aphids on our plants in the greenhouse. One way to fight aphids is by spraying cold water over plants. However, aphids can also be fought in an organic way: by...

  • Greenhouse 2

    Second T-system

    Setup: T-system Fish: Catfish Location: Fabriek, Greenhouse Built: 22 February 2012

  • Structuring processes

    Backing up our assumptions

    Our oldest system has been running for one and a half years now and we've seen happening a lot to it in this time. Ebs and flows, births and deaths, seeds and fruits. To have this experience is nice

  • Cooling a greenhouse

    How to cool a greenhouse on hot summer days

    With the summer approaching, the temperature in the greenhouse were rising. On sunny days the temperature can skyrocket during this time of year. Imagine what the temperature in the greenhouse will...

  • Brainwaves

    Some aquaponics ideas

    This morning when I woke up, a fully developed idea popped up in my mind for a mini aquaponics system in our living room. This is a mockup of my idea. You can see I'm not a great photoshopper, but I...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Elise Chalcraft

    Tasting before wasting

    Optimizing our African Catfish feed

    My project for the past 8 weeks has been to look at how we could use waste streams from both the aquaponics greenhouse and the kitchen to feed our catfish to make the system as circular as possible.
  • Book: Sylvia Bernstein 11 Nov 2011

    Aquaponic Gardening

    A Step by Step Guide to Growing Fish and Vegetables Together

    Aquaponic Gardening is the definitive do-it-yourself home manual, focused on giving you all the tools you need to create your own aquaponic system and enjoy healthy, safe, fresh, and delicious food...

  • Aquaponics in deserted factory Manchester

    From the Guardian

    Excerpt: Orchards, crops and a fish farm will fill the empty spaces of a former printworks as the Biospheric Foundation comes to Salford. Christopher Arden reports
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Kevin Siedsma

    Help! My seeds aren't germinating!

    My time here at the aquaponics greenhouse  has been a touch and go learning experience. Let me elaborate by going into detail about my trials and tribulations setting up the nursery. So all you

  • A new system!

    Thanks to the workshop participants

    Last friday we built a new system. It's about time too, because the catfish are a little bit overstocked.

  • Bright and shiny

    Philips LEDs give new perspective to grow lights

    Those new grow LEDs we got from Philips are very bright indeed! It feels like we've been trying to get plants growing in dusk al this time

  • Miniponics

    Sustainable fish and plant farm for the living room

    This small aquaponics-installation looks good and is eco-friendly. Plants and fish are cultivated together and help each other survive. The Miniponics consists of not much more than a PET-bottle
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Elise Chalcraft

    7 kilos of Happiness

    The ins and outs of weighing our fish

    Every 6 months, we weigh our 128 African catfish. This is done to get a snapshot into the growth rate of the catfish and check on their general wellbeing. The Aquaponics Greenhouse currently has five...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Abhay Villa 28 Jun 2021

    Shitty Water + Wasabi - Snails = Money

    At the Mediamatic Greenhouse, we try to maximise the productivity of the little space we have by growing rare, collectable and valuable crops. All whilst strongly advocating for the advantages of...

  • Too big, too many

    The catfish are growing

    Yesterday we experimented with different techniques to measure our catfish.
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Elise Chalcraft

    Duckweed taste testing 2.0

    Using duckweed as an alternative food source to feed our fish

    Let me tell you about an aquatic plant I have come to love... Duckweed is a floating aquatic plant commonly found in ponds, lakes, and other still-moving bodies of water. Duckweed is commonly seen as...

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