Dakakkers

10/01/2025

Filming and interviewing Emile Van Rinsum on the DakAkker for the TV series "Nordseereport", a monthly travel magazine on the NDR.de. On the second of februart the feature about 'Rotterdam sustainable city !' will be broadcast on NDR Fernsehen. With the DakAkker as shining example of sustainability and innovation in Rotterdam. For more information and links to the broadcast on 📲: www.ndr.de/nordseereport.

Optigrün Benelux Optigrün international AG ZUS Binder Groenprojecten Rotterdams Milieucentrum

06/12/2024

Volunteerday for the rooftopfarmers of the DakAkker rooftopfarm last Friday. Visiting the Rotterdam (compost)wormfarm Wormenkwekerij 010 and the mushroomnursery rotterzwam (known for, among other things, the Rotterzwam bitterbal). It was a wonderfulday 🙂.

06/12/2024

We are guests today at the 2nd Agribusiness and food summit in Berlin Germany to present our large agriculturalroof in Rotterdam Central District and the ( Slimdak ) testsite retentionroof. Chef rooftopfarmer Wouter Bauman is one of the keynote speakers. organized by Luxatia international 🌱.

28/11/2024

Full house at Van Iperen in Oude Tonge where this afternoon and tonight our founding father Emile Van Rinsum was one of the speakers. He talked about our adventures at the DakAkker rooftopfarm on the Schieblock office building in the heart of Rotterdam Central District. Six groups of 20 participants this with gardeners, greenmanagers, civil servants of municipalities, etc. With slides and videos of and about the large green agriculturalroof and the Slimdak (smart waterretentionroof) on the rooftoppavilion.

21/11/2024

Really the last excursiongroup on the roof today. The excursion season had already ended, but we could not refuse the group of officials from the Municipality of Rotterdam (Gemeente Rotterdam). 📲: www.dakakker.nl ❄️

19/11/2024

The last rooftopfarmersworkingday at the DakAkker rooftopfarm before the winterbreak. The last figs, the last edibleflowers, the last patatoes the last raspberries, the last honey, the last jerusalemartichokes, the last tomatoes ... goodbye! DakAkker see you next year. And delicious figcake with coffee with figs from the roof! On an officebuilding downtown Rotterdam Central District 📷 Lydia van Deursen 🌱.

18/11/2024

WAIT FOR IT !!! WAIT FOR IT !!!
Drone footage the DakAkker rooftopfarm Rotterdam Central District by Skyfoto.

17/11/2024

Hoe het begon? Onze eerste stappen. Promofilmpje over de DakAkker uit 2012. How it started? Our first steps. Promotionfilm about the DakAkker 2012. 🥕🧄🥔🥒🌶🍅🍆🥦
Gerealiseerd door/ realised by: Optigrün Benelux, Optigrün international AG, Binder Groenprojecten, ZUS, Rotterdams Milieucentrum. Funded by: Het Stadsinitatief, de Postcode Loterij, de Rabobank.

14/11/2024

Today in Antwerp (Belgium) visiting the Day of Urban Agriculture on and near the beautiful of the PAKT of the Volle Grond.

08/11/2024

🍂 Autumn harvest on the DakAkker rooftopfarm on an officebuilding downtown Rotterdam Central District. 📷: Lydia van Deursen 🌱.

05/11/2024

🍂 Autumn harvest on the DakAkker rooftopfarm on an officebuilding downtown Rotterdam Central District. 📷: Lydia van Deursen 🌱.

01/11/2024

Rooftopfarmer Wouter Bauman will become the new director of the Rotterdam Environmental Center ( Rotterdams Milieucentrum ). He succeeds Emile Van Rinsum. Emile worked at the Environmental Center for more than 20 years and was the co-founder of our DakAkker rooftopfarm. Wouter also worked at the Environmentalcenter for some time, and was responsible for nature and spatial planning for about 18 years. He combined his work for the center with being a rooftopfarmer and rooftopbeekeeper (1 day a week). We wish Wouter every success in this important and intensive job ❗️So next year there will be a new chief rooftopfarmer.

26/10/2024

The last rooftoptour of this season: residents of an apartment complex in the Lusthofstraat who are orientating themselves on a greenroof. With two people from the Municipality of Rotterdam (Gemeente Rotterdam). 📷: Rob Van Katwijk .

20/10/2024

So many figs ... and more harvest from the roof. 🌼 on the DakAkker rooftopfarm on an officebuilding downtown Rotterdam Central District. 📷: Lydia van Deursen 🌸.

16/10/2024

🇨🇵 Aujourd'hui, pour la deuxième fois, un groupe d'étudiants de l'Université de Louvain *) (Belgique) a visité notre ferme sur le toit . Ils étaient là aussi l’année dernière !
🇬🇧 Today, for the second time, a student group from the University of Louvain (Belgium) visited our DakAkker rooftopfarm. They were here last year too! 📷: Rob Van Katwijk. *) = UCLouvain – Université catholique de Louvain

13/10/2024

📽 🌼 on the DakAkker rooftopfarm on an officebuilding downtown Rotterdam Central District. 📷: Lydia van Deursen 🌸.

11/10/2024

A group of the University of Dortmund today on rooftopvisit. Next Sunday the 13th of October they will give a presentation in the Nieuwe Instituut: the Practice Place, 11:00-12:30 hr, a dialogue between the students and teachers from the TU Dortmund Urban Design Unit. They will start their three-day workshop with a discussion about the possibility of positively influencing neighborhoods through design and strengthening hope as motivation for this. After an introduction to the theme by Sebastian Schlecht and Renée Tribble and about the toolkit 'Building with a positive footprint' by Dutch architect Vincent van der Meulenthey will start a discussion about how the power of can be applied in specific areas of the design practice. NEXT Sunday in the Nieuwe Instituut. 📷: Rob Van Katwijk.

30/09/2024