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  • 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...

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  • urban farming
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  • plants
  • 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...

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • Aquaponic Kitchen

    New Zealand Spinach Juice

    Drinking our aquaponic vegetables

  • 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

  • First sprouts transplanted to the Aquaponics…

    Field Peas (Capucijners) are looking great!

    New season starts for the Aquaponics Systems. After few days awaiting for our first shoots we have finally some baby plants to transplant to the grow beds.

  • Iron Deficiency

    Deep red water, but healthy plants.

  • A system in Museon

    Part of exhibition '#stad van de toekomst'

    The Mediamatic Aquaponics Team was invited to build an installation at the Museon in Den Haag. It's become part of an exhibition about the future of cities.

  • 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...

  • Biological Control

    The circle of life writ small in our aquaponics greenhouse

    It's all just things eating things in here.

  • Cauliflower in the greenhouse

    It's happy!

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

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Black Soldier Fly

    All hail the lords of composting

    Documenting our black soldier fly experiment

  • One more reason to grow your own fish

    Mekong-catfish toxic and hazardous

    Belgian newspaper De Morgen wrote an article about the panga fillet you can find so cheap in the supermarket's freezer. Not a very appealing bite after you read this: Pangasius: de waarheid over de...

  • 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!

  • Aquaponic Kitchen

    Saag Paneer, Butter Chicken, and More

    An Indian feast becomes our most aquaponic meal yet

  • Germination Experiement

    Sprouting seeds

    Which is the best way to raise our seedlings for life in the aquaponics system?

  • Vertical Farming Ikea-stijl

    Verslag van KamerVragen op 21 februari 2013

    ‘Boeren‘ in de stad, het is mogelijk en iedereen kan het. Dit werd gisteravond door Willem Velthoven van Mediamatic en John Apesos van Simbicity gedemonstreerd tijdens KamerVragen in de...

  • First crops hit the grow beds

    Tuesday we planted our first plants in the grow beds.

  • Prevention rather than cure

    Old saying true for us

    Fish are like humans. They have all kinds of slumbering diseases and they have an immune system that helps them defeat the pathogens. Just like us.

  • 188 m2 / 10 - 20 individuen

    Circulaire Kas

    Unieke ruimte in glazen kas

    Stad, onderzoek en natuur komen samen in deze circulaire kas. De lichte ruimte is gevuld met planten en het geluid van stromend water. Het is een geschikte locatie voor brain-storm sessies

  • 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

  • Gobsmacked piping system!

    Aquaponkiss at Dijksgracht 6

    Thursday we finished an important new piping system that will help us to keep the watering system more stable.

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