Aquapioneers lead the movement toward sustainable agriculture within cities with a range of products and services that empowered people to grow and source fresh, local food. We built our aquaponics systems & services ourselves and in partnership with the worldwide network of Fab Labs MISSION: Aquapioneers develops sustainable urban agriculture solutions using aquaponics, an innovative technology that reduces the environmental footprint of the food industry. In addition, we seek to support the transition to new productive models, that respect our health and the environment through training and workshops. VISION: Aquapioneers applies circular economy values through the local production of sustainable food, through technological solutions based on aquaponics.
After discovering Aquaponics from my uncle in 2015, I left my corporate job to start the Fab Academy at the Green Fab Lab of Barcelona. My final project was an Open Source Aquaponic Kit . During my first experiments at the Green Fab Lab he met Loic, who was doing his master thesis in Aquaponics at the Universidad Autonoma of Barcelona. Convinced by the unbeatable advantages of Aquaponics as a sustainable method of Urban Agriculture, we decided to combine our skills and savings to create Aquapioneers.
We started by improving my fab Academy prototype and beta-tested it in various places in Barcelona and beyond.
Then, we followed worldwide Hallam Murray Aquaponics course that gave use the knowledge to built a 25 m2 Greenhouse with Digital Fabrication to explore Aquaponics on a bigger scale.
This pilot farm is a small scale version of what could be an aquaponic farm on a rooftop in Barcelona.
This greenhouse allows us to produce 30 kg of fish and 300 kg of vegetables per year, which can feed 2 persons during an entire year.
After last year's encouraging results, we are launching this campaign to give us the means to increase our impact without compromising the Open Source nature of the project.
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