Floating Future
Floating Future is a Dutch company that develops floating technology to enable food production floating on open water all over the world. Floating future does this as sustainably and organically as possible.
Cities
In the future, cities will have problems providing their populations with fresh and sustainably produced food.
Worldwide
Most growing cities in the world are located on water or have a connection with water. With floating technology, food production is made possible on unused water surfaces.
Scaleable floating technology
Floating Future develops and builds floating food islands of 6m x 26m each that can be linked infinitely. MARIN will conduct extensive research for this in 2022.
For Cities
Floating future takes fresh and healthy quality food directly, faster and cheaper to consumer or merchants.
The Hydroponics method
On floating technology, crops are grown with hydroponics. This is the most efficient and sustainable way of growing. Floating Future works together with Wageningen University for this.
R&D Team
Floating Future works as an interdisciplinary Team consisting of Scientists, Biologists, Designers and Engineers.
History
In 2000 the first floating garden was commissioned by the Municipality Amsterdam. It was built with an cooperation of people with a distance to the labour market. (This floating garden can still be admired at the Panamakade in Amsterdam).
The new food
Demo and test location in Almere Netherlands (20km from Amsterdam).
News
Floating Food Farm is an innovative story in the Greentech Community
GreenTech: A brand new community for the global horticulture industry. GreenTech provides concrete answers to essential questions when it comes to innovation and technology for the production of vegetables, fruit and flowers.
Combining Floating Food Farm with aquaponics to make it fully selfsufficient
Students of Wageningen UR are researching the possibilities of growing fish under the farm to feed the plants. Very promising.
Saving the world with airpop
Read here the interview about floating food farm in de Gelederlander.
On the floating base
Martin Hubers, SDE en Sören Knittel, nexus product design standing on a floating bicycle-path and discussing about building a prototype in real scale.
Floating Food Farm in Boten.nl special
Boten.nl presents floating food farm in their special ‘at home on water’ in issue 02.2017.
The first steps
Master students and scientists at Wageningen UR are researching the possibilities of food production on floating islands. The group separates is urban and marine environment.
We’ll do it first
The prototype in Lelystad is the first ever successful test of growing food on freshwater in the outside air. Read the article from the Dutch science magazine ´Technisch Weekblad´ here.
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