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Aquaponics: Imagine having a living ecosystem where the fish and plants can comfortably coexist in the same habitat. As fish mature and produce waste, plants use that waste as their nutrients to grow, while also cleaning the tank’s water. Aquaponics is integrated fish and plant farming method. When it comes to sustainable farming, Aquaponics presents several advantages compare to classical methods of agriculture. This method allows people to intensively grow food where in-ground agriculture is difficult or impossible like non-arable land in cities. This framework, in the context of the Green Fab Lab, offered a fertile ground for our respective interests in plants, fish and digital fabrication to combine into a unique symbiotic food production project. Aquaponics follows the zero-waste principle of natural ecosystems in which living organisms are interdependent and rely on each other for their vital needs.

Organic Garden: We need the energy we get from food. Valldaura was an agricultural land in the first part of the 20th century, and now we are recovering an activity that is not only productive but also generates biodiversity in the Collserola Natural Park. Social Agriculture is an initiative to achieve food self-sufficiency by farming (organically) the Valldaura Terraces. The program includes: traceability of the products (from seed face to finishing product); energy consumption management (water, energy, human); time-based currency. Social Agriculture is a way of working the land, tracing our time and energy and returning efforts in calorific content “food” at harvest time. One of the main objectives, apart from food production is the creating of an open application that allows the instalment of a balance between the human energy invested in this initiative and the products obtained after the crop. We close the cycle of food production all the way to human consumption and the subsequent production of energy and new nutrients for the soil, researching technologies for both large- and small-scale food productions

Organic Garden

Food Forest