Highlights 2
Updated: Apr 9, 2021
We continue with the production of Kombucha!
On Wednesday, Jasper came over at the IDC to explain the process of growing the scoby and harvesting it to produce the actual kombucha leather. We had the opportunity to ask questions about the process and he gave us some samples to experiment on.
tags: kombucha, experimenting
On Tuesday, we discovered that the tea we made the week before had grown mold on it. We contacted Jasper as soon as possible because we needed the tea the next day. He recommended making a new batch so that is what we did. We also salvaged one of the former batches to experiment if it would still work.
tags: kombucha, learning, unexpected
This week we learned about systems thinking so we tried to apply this theory to our project. We made the first version of a loop diagram of what we imagine our system looks like.
tags: systemsthinking, learning
Today we met up with Hermien, a fellow student who has a lot of experience working with kombucha. She was able to answer some of our questions and gave us some advice.
tags: learning, networking
We learned about archetypes in this week’s lessons. These gave us some new ideas on how to look at a system and made it easier for us to represent our particular system by simplifying it.
tags: systemsthinking, learning
This week, we decided to make new batches of kombucha to test some parameters which can influence the growth of the scoby. One of these is the use of wastewater resulting from the growth of mycelium as a replacement for tap water to make tea.
tags: experimenting, kombucha
