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PH meter
Brand new easy to use PH & Temp meter
To ensure the right living conditions for our fish we need to measure the PH daily.
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Interview
Saro gives tour to journalist
Curious journalists keep coming to our project, it's a popular topic.
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Peek through
- Preparing tours3Feb 2013From this week on, we'll be giving guided tours through our aquaponics systems. So, we have to prepare a bit.
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book: Sylvia Bernstein 11 Nov 2011
Aquaponic Gardening
A Step-By-Step Guide to Raising Vegetables and Fish Together
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Nurture
- Seedlings and fingerlings29Jan 2013This evening will be about nurturing our little ones. The sick fingerlings need clean salt water and the seedlings need comfort and time.
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Planting plan
- What when where why27Jan 2013Our new intern, Kike, has been working on a planting plan to streamline our sowing, growing and harvesting.
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Sussing out Mediamatic's 'Sister System' in…
The system is not working very well, a rebuild plan is drawn up.
Since the Aquaponics project of Self-Sustaining Communities was started up last Spring, the system has wound down somewhat. It looks as though a complete rebuild may be needed to get the system...
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A 'Sister System' for the Mediamatic Aquaponics…
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 system' system in...
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Mysterious Deaths
- Investigation22Jan 2013You don't notice they're getting less, but one by one our babyfish are dying. Who, or what, is the perpetrator?
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Testing, testing, testing
- and some more testing20Jan 2013It becomes almost boring to mention it, but testing really is one of the main activities of aquaponics, especially when you do it manually like us.
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Data logging
- Crash course and research on how to log our data15Jan 2013We really need to get our data collection structured. The data from our sensors is sent to Cosm, so we are trying to find a way to manually fill in the data we collect ourselves at that service too.
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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 the glass...
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End of exhibition Eindhoven
De etende mens finished
Last June, we brought one of our tower systems to the Designhuis in Eindhoven, to feature in the exhibition " De etende mens ". We also made a system merged with João's Diesel Kantine.
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Fine-tuning
- The new workshop system13Jan 2013Last friday we built a new system during the workshop. It's a new design to fit in the Mediamatic greenhouse.
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Rochelle
The more I learn the more I am humbled by just how little I know...not that it stops me, of course!
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Taking measures
- Monitoring values8Jan 2013This tuesday we'll talk about how we will measure the values of our water. So far we've been using liquid tests, but the process takes time and we have been filling in the data a bit unstructured.
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workshop: Mediamatic Fabriek
Aquaponics Workshop
11Jan 2013- Learn how to build an aquaponics system31Dec 2016At Mediamatic we're in the know about aquaponics: a sustainable food production system that combines the cultivation of vegetables and fish. We continue to share our knowledge by organizing workshops...
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Defending our spot
- and meeting new neighbors6Jan 2013We're not really afraid of losing our space to the other inhabitants of the favela, you know, but still, next sunday we will be defending our spot.
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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.
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New year's checkup
- How did the fish survive the noise?1Jan 2013We've learned that fish don't like long term noise and unrest. In their tent they won't see the flashes, but all the explosions might have made them stressed.
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Mushroom dinner
- After a bountiful harvest, we can eat them30Dec 2012Last week, during the power outage disaster, our mushrooms started to bloom.
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Disaster Strikes
Power outage kills babies while oysters fruit
Last thursday our 1000 catfish fingerlings arrived and now two of our towers are inhabited by the little creatures. In the night of saturday22—sunday23 there was a power outage. More than 250 baby...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Disaster Strikes
- Power outage kills babies while oysters fruit23Dec 2012Last thursday our 1000 catfish fingerlings arrived and now two of our towers are inhabited by the little creatures. In the night of saturday22—sunday23 there was a power outage. More than 250 baby...