Nikki takes the curls out of her face with a smooth movement and puts her hands in her side, in a shed on the edge of Beverwijk. Her smile echoed through the high space. “Where should we start, guys?” she wonders aloud. There is quite a bit to say about seaweed, the refinery-in-structure and Nikki’s seaweed career so far.
There are about fifteen water tanks in the room, cardboard boxes, (parts of) machines and bottles or jerry cans with a brown stuff. “Fertilizer of one hundred percent seaweed,” it says. Nikki’s friend Roy will build a new, larger machine in the coming period, because the production of the seaweed fertilizer must now be increased.
Nikki’s seaweed is a clean replacement of (art) manure
It is the first seaweed product that Nikki is going to market with its start-up Holdfast & Stipe, initially with a hundred farmers. It is a clean replacement for other (artificial) manure types. The first results are promising, although much still needs to be tested in practice.
That is precisely Nikki’s intention: “A lot of theoretical research has been done into various possible applications of seaweed. And they must continue to do that. But we are now going to put it into practice, and in this way gain new knowledge.”
For example, the fertilizer is made of one hundred percent seaweed. Text continues after the video.