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  • Aquaponic Kitchen

    Lasagna Florentine

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

    Jap Chae and Banchan

    Kim chi made from aquaponic chard inspires a Korean meal

  • Aquaponic Kitchen

    New Zealand Spinach Juice

    Drinking our aquaponic vegetables

  • Aquaponic Kitchen

    Saag Paneer, Butter Chicken, and More

    An Indian feast becomes our most aquaponic meal yet

  • Aquaponic Kitchen

    When life hands you catfish...

    The aquaponics team makes a minor mishap into a major feast
  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Aquaponic Kitchen

    Risotto With Peas and Chard

    My first contribution as Aquaponics Intern: lunch!

  • Tomatoes in Eindhoven

    Nice surprise

    When Saro went to check up on our two systems at the designhuis in Eindhoven, he got a nice surprise: the bar system's got delicious tomatoes.

  • 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.

  • 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
  • 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...

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Shit

    Better be safe than sorry

    For a few weeks now, tower 3 has been having troubles. The water looked cloudy, the fish weren't eating, in fact, they were gasping for air. We measured everything we could, but couldn't find a cause.

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • Pruning tomatoes

    Light and air

    My father has years and years of experience growing tomatoes. The first thing I learned from him was pruning. 'The most important thing', according to him.

  • 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.

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