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  • Aquaponic Kitchen

    When life hands you catfish...

    The aquaponics team makes a minor mishap into a major feast
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  • Aquaponic Kitchen

    New Zealand Spinach Juice

    Drinking our aquaponic vegetables

  • The Ultimate Miniponics Manual

    How to build it yourself

    The miniponics system is a cute little one, attracting a lot of attention from visitors. Read here how you can build it yourself.

  • 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

  • Aquaponic Kitchen

    Saag Paneer, Butter Chicken, and More

    An Indian feast becomes our most aquaponic meal yet
  • 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.

  • 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
  • From our Faraway Friend Wendy Monroe

    Trial and Error

    A photo essay

    Our system with the five half barrel beds is up and running now, the plants in the beds have taken root and we will be taking delivery of 30 Channel Catfish next week. We will be getting them from...

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • Fungal Disease

    New tank proves too cold for our African Catfish

    The fish that have been placed in the greenhouse with the last workshop unfortunately all died of a fungal disease. Last wednesday 28th may the first fish got sick and showed some cottony-white...

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • Blue LED's and bioballs

    Canadian commercial aquaponics farm described

    Broadcaster CBC published a story about a new commercial aquaponics farm. It's interesting to read, because they do some things differently.

  • 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...

  • Dealing with pests

    The pineapple sage infestation

    With the changing of the seasons and the drop in temperature, some plants in the unheated greenhouse become more susceptible to pests and infestations as they are perennial, such as the Pineapple...

  • 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.

  • Too big, too many

    The catfish are growing

    Yesterday we experimented with different techniques to measure our catfish.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

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