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  • Aquaponic Kitchen

    Risotto With Peas and Chard

    My first contribution as Aquaponics Intern: lunch!
  • Food
  • Aquaponics

  • Aquaponic Kitchen

    New Zealand Spinach Juice

    Drinking our aquaponic vegetables

  • Aquaponic Kitchen

    Lasagna Florentine

    Spinach and cheese feature prominently in this week's aquaponic lunch

  • Aquaponic Kitchen

    Jap Chae and Banchan

    Kim chi made from aquaponic chard inspires a Korean meal

  • Biological Control

    The circle of life writ small in our aquaponics greenhouse

    It's all just things eating things in here.

  • Aquaponic Kitchen

    When life hands you catfish...

    The aquaponics team makes a minor mishap into a major feast

  • Aquaponic Kitchen

    Saag Paneer, Butter Chicken, and More

    An Indian feast becomes our most aquaponic meal yet

  • A 'Sister System' for the Mediamatic…

    How similar is a system of almost the same design... in a very different climate?

    For family reasons, I am leaving Amsterdam and returning to my native San Francisco. … Just as things are getting interesting with the system at Mediamatic's Urban Farm... A 'sister...

  • Pea Pod Painting

    Aquaponic Ink from Purple Snow Peas

    When life hands you pea pods, make ink!

  • Painting White

    New Catfish home at Dijkgracht, 6

  • The Flying Aquaponics Team in Izmir

    November 15 and 16, 2013

    Contemporary art organization K2 in Izmir is currently in the middle of the process leading to an exhibition in March 2014 about the ecology of the city. They invited us to do an aquaponics workshop...

  • Workshop

    with new system design

    Mediamatic wanted an aquaponics system in their greenhouse office at the Fabriek, so during the workshop we built one upstairs. It's a new design, because the tower wouldn't fit underneath...

  • Enormous vertical aquaponics farm in Chicago

    In an abandoned warehouse

    There has been some talk in the aquaponics community about the question whether aquaponics can be done commercially succesful. Here's an example, it's called FarmedHere

  • Sea of mint

    Be sure to get a nice cup of tea next time you visit us

    The few shabby roots and sticks we put in one aquaponics growbed have grown into a sea of fresh tasty mint!

  • Cauliflower in the greenhouse

    It's happy!

    During the workshop in January we replanted the cauliflower from the train system in the new system.

  • A Silly Beast

    Choked in his friend

    On the morning of Friday's workshop, we found this floating around in Tower 2:

  • Miniponics succes

    Many people want it at home

    After two days of workshops using the miniponics as a demonstration model, we can say it's a big succes.

  • Back in circulation

    A change of scenery in two weeks

    Whaaaaat! So much can change in two weeks, it's unbelievable! When Saro and I entered the tent today after Christmas family visits, surprise after surprise greeted us.

  • Interview

    Saro gives tour to journalist

    Curious journalists keep coming to our project, it's a popular topic.
  • From our Faraway Friend Wendy Monroe

    Release of Channel Catfish

    Richmond Aquaponics farm receives inhabitants

    The Channel Catfish for the Richmond aquaponics farm have arrived! This video shows their release.

  • Big fish, big food

    We just learned something new! Lately our big fish (they're approaching 300 grams now) weren't eating very well, but we couldn't find a cause. Until we ordered new fish food for them.

  • Nettle spray

    Natural remedy for aphids

    Today we made a natural remedy for our aphids plague. To do this you just have to pick some nettles and make a mixture with water. The approximate amount of nettles is 100 grams per liter of fresh...
  • From our Faraway Friend Wendy Monroe

    Those Oesterzwam bags

    Unknown here in the States

    At a presentation given by Jim Wheeler, founder of the Sonoma County Mycological Association ( of Northern California )

  • New baby fish at the Fabriek

    Clarias gariepinus | African sharptooth catfish

    After the deaths of around 400 of our fish due to a power failure, we were sadly left with two empty systems. Time to take action, before the bacteria in the systems would die as well.
  • Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Building Aquaponics Systems

    20
    Oct 2019
    - with Saro van Cleynenbreugel

    Aquaponics is a sustainable food production system that combines the cultivation of vegetables and fish. It is one of the best ways to produce food in the city, because it hardly takes up any space.

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