The May 2013

Bioremediation Celebration The Mud Ball Beneficial Mud Ball!

This was super fun..  Thank you for everyone who helped! Next year there will be more organizations involved and more bioremediation skills to share and partake in.  End of May 2014! Thank you: Jimmy’s No 43 for local beer, Bob White’s for buttermilk biscuits, Speakers: Paul Mankeiwicz, PHD of Gaia Institute, Vandra Thorburn of Vokashi, and KiKi Ulky Saint-Vil of Green Haiti. Thanks for super help and contibutions by Naoko Okabe for vegan baked energy bars and help, Kappo Kappino for mud ball gown help and space, Stephanie Huffaker for Prep, Anne Apparu Seed Bomb Love Bombs for seed ball bike ride with Times-Up, Shig for EM-1, Tim Paulson, Keat Foong, Uma Lo for collecting donations, Mr. Stephan for oysters, opening them, and sound bike, Joe Sharkey for Cargo Bike, Ben Shepard and kids for signage help, Bill Di Paolo for video clips, JK and Marta for evening music (their sound system was stolen so it was acoustic), Catherine Wolcott printing and DJ Farrah Sabado for EM donation. Supporters and participants: Casper Hanak, Adam Horwich, Erik McGregor, Kim Fraczek, Stanley and Greg Sherman, Curtis Wayne, John Speck, and Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space, Trisha McLaughlin, Marion Kass, Ivan Lerner, Howard and 6th St Community Center, Valerie Green, JC Augutin, Dave Publow, Eric Carlsen,  and who did I miss??   SO many thanks! and for more organizations for getting the word out.

John wearing crown made by Rolando, Kappo Kappino and Rolando

Oysters to eat! We keep the shells. To encourage oyster re-population we will need around 10,000 in one spot in the river.

The throwing of the Oyster Shells- contributing our "waste" to where it can be useful in regenerating the ecosystem.

We were using MoS made Bokashi Starter Bran for fermenting food waste to make soil to boost our yields and bioremediate and nourish topsoil.

Paul Mankeiwicz, biochemist and green infrastructure socialist, speaking about the bio-remediation process at El Jardin Paraiso, this community garden.

Ki-ki ULky St.Vil explaining his permaculture site in Haiti. He organizes trip to Haiti to work at the site.

Tossing our oyster shells into the water.

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