A yearly French Fanzin curated by publishers editions En Scred, Lucie Van Der Elst and Marie Aubry. Lucie was in NYC interviewing urban farmers for the next issue, which I think will be comparing suburban and urban farming. So we may read about Smiling HogHead Ranch amongst other NYC gardens and farms around the globe […]
“As a matter of fact this world is going to be saved not by people with long faces, ‘Oh isn’t it terrible, oh …isn’t it awful.’ It is going to be saved by the ppl who say ‘well it sure is terrible, well, let’s do something about it and they got a big GRIN on their face while they are planning some new ESCAPADE which is going to get people together to perform another little MIRACLE.”
We have had 3 meetings: There are now many projects and skills on the table so we will start shuffling stitching them into a bigger networked picture by using index cards on the table Thursday. To be involved just (you might be that missing piece) . . Send us : Name Location : neighborhood Projects […]
MoS Town Hall Meeting: #3 in a meeting series: Bioremedation + Public Space. Thursday, Feb 6, 2014, 6:15 pm
Jimmy’s No 43 East 7th St Back-room. Find supportive links for your projects and visions in ’14. (Stay for hobnobbing at the bar after 9). Day to day we interact with bioremediaton more and more to survive. We have gotten to the point where we need to filter or clean our air, water and soil in our daily doings otherwise it may make us sick. Even ancient civilizations practiced some kind of beneficial succession of their water, air and soil to sustain their people. Now that we are scientifically much more advanced at polluting our natural resources we have also become disconnected from these processes that meet our needs. We must learn to be similarly as innovative at designing scientific systems that will have the by-product of beneficial succession. We can tie the 2 desires if we make bioremediation part of the intention. Public Space and the commons is a good place to tie in this bioremediation.
FFW Questions: “I now have several buckets of FFW [fermented food waste] and lots of questions. 1. Do any of you know of a compost place that would welcome some FFW to feed their worms? and maybe even on the other side give me back some FFW-fed worm compost? 2. If I find some barren soil and bury my FFW there, do I mix the FFW into the soil when I reclaim the FFW-treated soil? 3. Can you send me to a good website so I can learn more? – Grateful & eager, Maureen”
Thursday Jan 9, 2014, 6:16 pm. MoS Goosebump Meeting 2. This is a MoS 2014 meeting series to link our projects and skills together to expedite their completion. 9:00 pm Post meeting happy-hour. RSVP and itinerary click MORE below.
> All Ebows IN < Thursday Dec 5, 2013, MoS Elbow (3 yr) MEETING!! Support for your projects visions for '14. To Rsvp for address go to contact page. AFTER PARTY! 8:30 pm at Jimmy's no 43. Jimmy knows we are coming. (Back-up if jam packed and we are not there go to Tile bar, 1st/7th corner. BTW: Tile bar has no name outside.)
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After having to move and reassemble compost bins a few times gardeners at Smiling Hogshead Ranch had the idea of using belts that would easily untie. (A bag of belts at Goodwill cost around $10.) Making Compost Bin Signs Planting fruit trees on either side of the railroad track Gorgeous original SHR Tenant grandfathered in. […]
11/18 at Earthdance.net We are helping the Ship’s Cook, Jason, make cider for jarring something. It is soooo surprisingly delicious with all those wormy apples. The apples that are not nice enough to put in the fruit bowl. There are buckets and buckets of these holey wormy bruised apples. We only processed one bucket = […]
Sunday once a month at Dixon Place, Lower East Side. NYC The Secret City celebrates creative life and community. Part Salon, Part cabaret, super fun and social. (with free child care). Program below. What great Sunday morning music! Playing Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground. You tube Secret City and I’m sure something will come […]
By Gil Lopez Sat. 11/23, I presented a workshop on entomophagy entitled “Discover Edible Insects” at the Queens Library at Steinway. Since I am in no way an expert on the topic, I used this slide show I found on the internet. http://www.slideshare.net/GreggFlaharty/bio-slide-show-3” I was inspired to offer this presentation after hearing of and scanning […]
[Fall2013] The tree of life shelf in herbalist’s, Kate Temple-West, home. She specializes in aphrodisiacs and will be collecting the fall yellow Gingko leaves which are used as an aphrodisiac for men. There is a Genko tree is outside my apartment window so I have access to lots of these yellow leaves at the moment. […]
MoS took a road trip to Earthdance retreat center and creative living community. We went up for Sustainability Sunday which I wanted to rename “The Sunday Commons” when I heard about it this summer. The event was created to build community. They Invited Pioneer Valley farmers, congregations, artist groups, businesses, co-operatives, and individuals who just […]
October 2013: Thanks to the hard work and vision of many people the first Women’s Northeast Permaculture gathering at Omega Institute was amazing. Uma, photo below at the arrival desk, with co-organizer Laura Welland of Omega Institute’s Sustainability Center, set in motion this idea. They worked with a seed group over the year who all […]
Early Fall 2013 — A New MoS members! The Smiling Hogshead Ranch is a guerrilla community farm in Long Island City. Ground was broken on this one acre parcel in Spring of 2011 The property is owned by the MTA and the group of gardeners are working towards formalizing a garden license agreement. It is […]
October 2013, Tues-Friday at Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY. Some women, as myself, stayed after the women’s gathering for The 2nd Northeast Permaculture Open Space. At this event also initiated and organized by Laura Welland at Omega. A separate mens gathering has been requested for next year along side the women’s. Last year was where […]
Seedball.us is the growing evolution of this work. http://seedball.us/ for the complete picture. Pre-halloween PharmaSeed making at the 44th/8th Ave Community Garden with Chana! The PharmaSeed project is a challenge game for Halloween by seed bomb the coastline created by Anne Apparu. All boroughs get a favorite medicinal plant/flower color. That borough collects the seeds […]
June 2013 photos of The MoS Stockpile of Beneficial Mud balls 2013 3rd presence at The NYC Figment Festival! The Peace Parade with Nadette Stasa’s Peace Museum came by to toss some in! Many of the Masters of Succession were there to toss a mud ball! Thanks to MoS townies Shig Masukawa, Kappo Kappino, Stephanie […]
March 2013 A brief report. Vandra of The Vokashi food waste pick up service in NYC invited Pit Mau, EM-1 Expert from Germany, to see the work we are doing with the EM-1. He has a business of fermenting food waste with EM-1 in Germany where EM-1 is widely used. Pit Mau co-founded and is […]
(9/26) The former gardener at Earthdance, Sean, started making his own EM-1 at the same time I met him Spring of 2013. He learned about it in Hawaii from a farmer. I offered my EM-1 so he didn’t need to take the time to make it himself now, which is a long task of experimentation. […]
Feed your descendants! This treat, if made and buried correctly, will last for 100’s of years. It is being made as travel food for later this year but this Pemican is so good we will have to make more for later. Meat energy bars. “Pemican” is from the plains indians (Alberta, Great Lakes) HOW TO […]
Photos from Hudson Rising YONKERS! A food Karma event with Hudson Rising. We taught Boakshi Composting and How to make beneficial Mud balls with the EM-1 microbial inoculate. Hudsonrising.com
MoS Collective’s Commissioner, Tim Paulson, is working with a Dutch historian, Hubert de Leeuw, to write a book and produce a documentary of the Two Row Treaty, 1613. The treaty and wampum belt were made and “signed” between the Dutch, at the time just a small colony on Governors Island, the Mohicans and the Haudenosaunee. […]
Just some over the top images of our dinner at Eugene’s. A stop off at the bike fest in the drizzle to get a wonder women star. The bike fest poster On up to Eugene’s gorgeous abundance! Yes these pigs are part of it but not his. They live next door. The Entrance is dripping […]
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, […]
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A student at Columbia asked us after a TEd X Dumbo presentation in 2012, “How many mud balls would it take to clean the Gowanus and how much would that cost?”. The best answer would take careful study with pros who have remediated other large systems. However, Shig took the time to create an answer. […]
Learn to make Beneficial Mud Balls with MoS Collective at this festival. We will make some with you and have some dry to throw which will help nourish and eat the waste in the marina water. We will have a limited quantity of bokashi & EM Activated starter bran for sale for those of you […]
This year the stockpile of mud balls will be located at the same spot — water east side of Castle Williams on Governors Island. The balls of Effective Microorganisms will arrive by cargo bike in the Peace Parade co-hosted by Times-up and The Peace Museum. The mud balls are a diverse mixing of microbes that live in […]