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Rockaway Visioning and Bokashi Workshop: EM-1 Rockaway

A few of MoS friends went to a citizen Visioning meeting in Rockaway Beach 25. It was so fun. Diverse thinking hashing out perceived betterment in one vision. It’s challenging to get reverse compartmentalization of services. I would like to see everything mixed up a bit more to support better. Like the EM-1 microbes services […]

11/7-8-9 A NYC Permi Weekend

Fri, Sat & Sun: MoS Collective collaborators, More Gardens, Smiling Hogshead Ranch, La Plaza Cultural and BK permaculture, Kelly Fragale, Andrew Faust.. we are working together this weekend!! join us! Join New York City permaculture community for a full day of project implementation and actions throughout the city. David Sugalski, aka The Polish Ambassador (Digital […]

Photos of Fall Mud Ball ’14 at Smiling Hogshead Ranch

The Fall Mud Ball from New Age Beverages on Vimeo. 14-10-05-Fall MudBall Poster Links to Picasa Album

[Art] Gooseberry Island

Gooseberry Island This Image sequence of movements by dd Maucher of dd is an improvisation with what was around me. There was no plan except to take a nap by the sea– which never happened.

[Sir Kappo] Order Flowers!

Dearest Friends, {from Rolando) We continue on a self-supporting campaign filling “orders” through “word of mouth” for this very special ART for social change experimental co-op. 1 – http://globalrec.org/newsletter/struggles-and-victories-waste-pickers-on-the-frontline-august-september-2014/ Link is to the latest newsletter of the GLOBAL ALLIANCE of waste workers. I always recommend subscribing to this newsletter for the curious minded of what […]

10/5 You’re Invited: The Fall Mud Ball! Update 7

Did you go? Click More to click mailing list for Winter Mud Ball Invite. To participate CLICK More to click to contact us! • Click more to see 10/5 PHOTOS of The Fall Mud Ball and Ephemeral Piazza (picasa/google). Just click more —> (This theme doesn’t click on the home page excerpts – one must click more to click in posts)

The Fall Mud Ball Activity People

Fall Mud Ball List of ACTIVITY PARTICIPANT PEOPLE Involved as of 9/17 The Masters of Succession Collective presents The Ephemeral Piazza & The Fall Beneficial MudBall Beneficial Mud Ball Sunday Oct 5th: A celebration of bioremediation & Symbiosis. FALL BALL INVITE HERE: Participants so far for the #14fallmudball @moscollective – DD Maucher: Executive, Chief, Chair, […]

Two Row building Ephemeral Porto Piazzas

Day one: Loaded up for the 9 day row – Kingston-NYC for the preliminary voyage of the Two Row Camp: keeping the flame alive. The on-going mission It is not about campaigning for rights but about educating and living a way of life that supports and respects all humans and their ecosystem for a better […]

Sloop Clearwater Volunteer Educator & Sail Training Week

A few MoS Collective, DD and Gil, spent a great week on the Sloop Clearwater working and as environmental educators and getting sail training on the Sloop Clearwater. (from 8am-10pm everyday- hard work and really great). You can apply too on their web site. We started at 79th St to Cold Spring to Verplanck to […]

Video of Mud Village at Figment 2014

Click MORE to see VIDEO. A short video of the collective’s casual Mud Village Piazza happenings at Figment NYC by Matthew Belen.

The Two Row Camping Hudson River -> NYC Aug 1-11

or any days in between by bike or paddle or train. Launch is now after the Bear Mountain Reunion. Check details on web site. Things are building – stay up to date on http://www.tworow.camp/ This is not part of the renewal campaign. This is an effort to “keep the flame alive” in regards to the […]

The Stockpile of Beneficial Mud Balls At Figment NYC!

* MOS at FIGMENT PROJECT 2014 * MoS Collective participants joined together again at Figment to make a Mud Village at Governors Island for Figment Project 2014. Share link: http://moscollective.net/WP/archives/10241 short link: http://wp.me/p2bm5T-2Fb     NEXT: Click TO SEE PHOTOS from the 2014 Spring MudBall Ball and read about Mud Village concept : http://moscollective.net/WP/archives/10300 Join […]

The Beneficial MudBall Ball Review & Photos 2014

On June 1st The Masters Of Succession Presented: The 3rd BENEFICIAL MUDBALL BENEFICIAL MUD BALL (The MudBall Ball) A Garden Celebration of Bioremediation & Symbiosis. The MoS Collective comes together to Seed Serendipity one Piazza at a time. [http://moscollective.net/WP/the-beneficial-mudball-bal-review-2014] [http://moscollective.net/WP/archives/10300 – old link ] [the SHORT LINK: http://wp.me/p2bm5T-2G8 ]   , What is the MudBall Ball? […]

6/1 The MudBall Ball: A Garden Celebration of Bioremediation

JUNE 1, SUNDAY 3pm – 7 at El Jardin Del Paraiso, 4th/5th Sts btwn C/D. Free or suggested $10 contribution at door.

• ABOUT THE MUD BALL BALL:
It is a community garden picnic with activities. Check out the full activities list.

Come dance in hula hoop gowns at the Mudball Ball, a garden adventure with The Masters Of Succession. We will be a village that celebrates abundant lifestyles of bioremediation & symbiosis.

Help us make music & mud balls to revitalize the waterways, plant our future pharmacy with the PharmaSeed game, stomp on cob, delight in oysters then crush their shells, make egg carton balls (bring 6 empty cartons), grow mushrooms at home,make art with plastic, try detoxing herbs, yoga to oxygenate cells, relax w acupuncture, refresh with sparkling kombucha. Finishing with a musical sunset procession lead by the newly crowned King of Trash to toss our spent oyster shells in the river to being back water cleaning oysters.

Caspar’s Video: Integrated Villages

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Toad’s Video: Helping You Grow Mushrooms

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The MudBall Ball Participants Update

The Masters of Succession Collective presents The Beneficial MudBall Ball Sunday June 1. A celebration of bioremediation & Symbiosis. The garden will turn into Mud Village for the afternoon. Adventure with the Masters OF Succession as we show off some of our favorite things to do that also have the by-product of healthy water air […]

5/11 Giant Beneficial Mud Ball Photoshoot & Picnic

Sunday May 11, noon – 2 East River Williamsburg North 9th St walk to water. Join MoS expert Paper Mashe maker Rolando Politi aka kappo kappino, as we launch our giant beneficial mud ball: our silent advocate into the East River for a photoshoot. Noon at the waterfront at North 9th Street! Wear lab coats […]

Herbal Tea and Mood Cookies

The best herabal tea workshop and the best mood cookies ever! Jenni shared her 3 favorite herbal tea blends then we scrubbed washed our hands in organics : sugar. Calendula, lavender, special mexican salt and olive oil. Water was poured over our hands as a group and so nice the olive oil stayed to hydrate […]

The Giant Mud Ball Prop Update

“The armature is now all done….sturdy and with the narrow grid…pulp will adhere easier and better….

The Giant Mud Ball

Introducing The Mud Ball, a silent microbial dancer and advocate of symbiosis. It seemingly just sits there. However, it can teach us about human habits and patterns internal and external. It can teach us how we mimic natural microbial symbiotic systems. This giant mobile Mud Ball is an educator and happiness provider.

The MudBall Ball: INVITE & Ways to Participate

2014 is The 3rd Mud Ball Ball! A Bioremediation Maker Fair!

This year more projects, more participants, more partners means more cool ways to participate! EL Jardin Del Paraiso, Between 5th And 4th St Between Ave C and Ave D, 3-7 pm.

To learn more about THE BALL …

Billion Oyster Project (BOP)

OK MoS Collective’s DD and Caspar were able to go to the BOP training in Staten Island. Two new Oyster Gardeners hit the waterways!  We have cages to put in the water. We just need to connect with the next training to get the oyster babies. One cage will be hung in the East River […]

4/25 to 27 Work Week-end @ Earthdance

A retreat!  A much needed break from the urban bussel? Let’s go to Earthdance for amazing food, hiking, dancing, sauna or just the forest nourishment. We will help with a variety for tasks for 5 enjoyable hours each day. Tasks like help in the kitchen with fun people and create with the amazing local ingredients, […]

3/22 Beneficial Mud Ball Workshop LIC

3/22 Sat EM-1 Beneficial Mud Ball Workshop. (Free) For World Water Day 2014 an EM-1 Mud Ball workshop and bioremediation test. Come get dirty soft hands while rolling up mud balls that contain beneficial microorganisms. Long Island City Library (upstairs) 37-44 21st St, New York, NY 11101 http://goo.gl/maps/iiyE7 Sign up on the permaculture nyc Meet-up. […]

4/3 Thur MoStown Hall: Big Systems Social

4/3 Thursday at 6:30 MoS Town Hall Location: meet at Rebuild By Design Presentations at 250 Vesey St 29th Floor 5-7 (sold OUt). the people who want to still meet us after can email me and I will send you our location afterwards.. near there! If you did we will look at the work mingle, […]

3/8 Organic Growers School

Several MoStown folk participated with the Spring Organic Growers Conference 2015 in Asheville, NC. Come look for us there. http://organicgrowersschool.org/annual-spring-conference/

2/8 Seed Celebration & Swap

Today at the Old Stone House in Brooklyn, where I was answering questions and showing design plans, I picked up goji berry, kiwi (M&F), and grape from Baldwin Farm and seeds galore! I also learned that worms are not good for all soil. Old growth forests do not have to have worms since they use […]

Building Eco-Citizens Towns

I have noticed many leaders with a vision of creating supportive and regenerative communities. Students are leading the way because they are concerned about their air water and soil. Attached link to Kristin’s Millers Newsletter. i just read it and she and Richard Register, of Eco City Builders, have been developing a virtual-like-minded community. They […]

La Plaza Snow

I was visiting the garden to bury my fermented food waste into the new soil beds. This will add lots of goodness to the new soil for growing this Spring. As I walked in I was in-awe with this scene — the configuration in which the candy colored furniture was left in this beautiful array […]