Here is our friend Michelle this summer making a cob oven on her vacation at Metta Earth in Vermont. Why not have your own cob oven? It doesn’t last as long as a masonry oven but who needs it to last that long? By the time the cob one wears out you’ll want to “redecorate” […]
We have pretty good water.. just make sure you do NOT go in after a rain event! HUGE difference! Check it out inside pdf below. Great Charts. BTW: Albany’s Hudson River water is worse than NYC. RIverkeeper is doing a great job testing local NYC waterways. Look at this PDF: RvK_How-Is-the-Water_2006-10 to see charts on […]
HONEY FEST WEB SITE on the Rockaway boardwalk! MoS Collective’s mascots is a formation of 3 flying bees ” The Thunderbees”. Bees are important to succession. Firefly Concierge will be there representing our like minded attributes. I’m looking forward to bee keeping at La Plaza eventually. If you want to try beekeeping drop us a […]
http://www.brooklyngrangefarm.com/events/ Neat class Sept 10th at the Brooklyn Grange rooftop farm. I have had success with a mushroom chunk “patch” from fungi Perfecti which grows shiitake. It is dormant right now. I lost the plastic that went cover it so I made my own. Then it turned green bc of not enough circulation. Apparently, I […]
The East Side Manhattan waste water goes to The New Town Creek Treatment Plant. Then the cleaned products goes to the river and farms. Ahh, I hope they don’t grow food but they do. The pellets feed cattle, grow corn and wheat. It is processed with beneficial bacteria in the “digester eggs” […]
It’s ready! Make a donation and receive The MoS Fermented Starter. We made bokashi for workshop participants requesting it. Click “read more” to get some bokashi, organize your building, arrange pick up schedule, read pros/cons list & find next free workshop. We offer: • workshops at your home, building and office, contact us • set up […]
I saved up 2 1/2 containers of food waste before I had time to trench it. With compost I would have had to put it in the freezer. I brought the 2 containers of pickled-ness to my plot in the East Village and trenched it. I took out the arugula section for one container and […]
Permaculture Jordon Conference 2011 with Bill Mollison, Special Guest. Sept. 2011.
Here is the blue shell in action eating balls. I put a seedling pot in the hole as a temporary fix which worked great until it was removed by a curious George. Photo of before on next page. After Revitalization: What a relief. Much better for us.
MoS Collective: SATURDAY JULY 30th Weeksville Heritage Center hosted the NYFA sponsored project with Laundromat Project and Immigrants Arts event called “Seeding the City”. Miki Katagiri proposed Beneficial Mud Ball bioremediation class. The MoS Collective went along to help her teach: Shig, TIm, Naoko, Keat & DD. People came from a far to learn about […]
Saturday, July 30 2011 11:00-6:30 the Commons Brooklyn 388 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11217 With hour-long panels to introduce different kinds of medicine. Opening and closing ceremonies on the beautiful rooftop garden. FOOD & NUTRITION Angela Davis-Weston A. Price and Just Food Hannah Springer-Children and Nutrition Jared Koch-Clean Plates (www.cleanplates.com/) Shoshanna Levy-Nutrition Evolution (http://nutritionevolution.net) Jonathan […]
Google Maps and Earth refreshed the mini-golf area. The street view is still old though. There is Phyllis the snail! (The yellow square with the upside down snail shape) Google updated “Figment” Terrace. Go by and try the course! The top hole is broken so I put a pot in it to catch the ball– […]
When: Sat., July 30, 2011 | 12.- 5pm Where: Weeksville Heritage Center, 1698 Bergen St, Brooklyn, NY 11213 Cost: Free Making an Apartment Planter with Household Materials How to Solarize A Toy DIY: Tips on how to make your Home Sustainable Double Digging to Grow More in Less Space Learn the Benefits of Permaculture Learn […]
Next Bokashi “Fermenting food Scrap” Workshops!! Saturdays in July 2011 Great for apt! Easier than composting. No Smell, no rotting, no flies. at El Jardin del Paraiso community garden on East 5th Street between Ave C & D (the large garden spanning from 4th to 5th Street) July 16, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm July 23, […]
MoS Collective was invited to offer workshops at Pedal Power Concert by Shira, one of our Brunch Bokahsi and Mud Ball workshop participants! They needed the whole system to be represented. The bike pedaling energy-food waste-soil building-food producing-spiral. The food eating humans make power for their music with bikes, breathing, microbes and fresh water! The […]
A video tour < http://youtu.be/CLXwm8_AkkI > of the Yankee Ferry before the chickens — Photo of the corn field on the dock.
Video Clip Succession is fun throwing Mud Balls + they clean water. Succession is fun throwing Mud Balls + they clean water + they attract sonnets. Succession is fun throwing Mud Balls + they clean water + which attract sonnets + doing “Thunder Bees” + “Sonneting”. NEXT MISSION: Succession is; Mud Balls + the Thunder […]
Expedition Gowanus. Here is a new venture.– a boat — a laboratory and showspace for do-it-yourself sustainability experiments. Moving up and down the Gowanus teaching sustainability. MoS will have to initiate a conversation on EM-1 use and mud balls edu and events. Every boat should use copious amounts of EM-1. Surrounded in a […]
Keep it free for everyone! http://newyork.figmentproject.org/get-involved/donate/ Mention it is for MoS Collective Food Spiral Mini Golf. “The Micro Bug Food Spiral” is in need of repairs due to all the fun on the course and gazziollions of fans. Unprecedented numbers are ravaging the mini-golf this year. The same children from the Willie Wonka were obviously playing […]
The Little League passed by and took some pitches. Watch You Tube Clip. They were playing on Governors Island during Figment Week-end. Impressive form.. we should do an entire workshop with the Little league and clean up the Gowanus. Alas:: it was time for them to play for real when coach walked by and said, […]
More photos later – thanks everyone for coming out on a rainy day! Rain schmain. The little league walked by and pitched! The Shakespeare Anywhere ‘s came by for pitching while spewing sonnets. We created the thunderbee (like the thunderbirds airforce performers turned into be pollinators cleaning the waterways) formation launch sequence. The sonnets joined […]
All ready.. have everything except time to sleep. Time to thank a silent supporter who makes visions happen. Italo Morelli, the Executive Producer for all things MoS. Thank you Italo for helping with Figment and New Museum! He even did a beautiful job sewing the hem arond the banner. Then provided an amazing feast and […]
Super Bazooka Mud Ball Droppers made last night by John Eberenz. With little time to make a propelling bazooka he opted for a simple dropper … to be upgraded for the next event. Italo made a mobilization capability.
Participatory Art Installation “Stockpiles of Beneficial Mud balls” Propel Sat: 6/11 from 10:30-12pm Figment Festival 2011 NYC! Figment is a participatory arts festival; non-commercial, spreading to other cities quickly.) THis will be the first mud balls for cleaning water event in US. We have hundreds of balls ready to toss. Where: On Governors Island […]
MoS Food Spiral Snail is the white square on the Left. (we were not there Sat. This is Friday, Sat Sun Construction and The following Friday opening week end. (it doesn’t include the 4 mid week work days. FIGMENT GO time from Chris Jay on Vimeo.
TIME AGAIN for the fun and frivolous participatory arts project FIGMENT On Governors Island June 10-12! “What are you bringing?” Come Rove with Food Spirals Usurping! JOIN The Masters of Succession Leave a Better Trace cargo trike Food Spiral Usurpers. Lead by MoS Collective! June 11, Sat 10-6! on the Isle of Gov Meet 10:30 – […]
There were 35,000 people on the island the first week end. Estimating at least 10,000 played the minigolf. That was a lot of wear and tear. So we are enduring the toxic resin to bulletproof as much as possible. Our first 2 patches were with fiberglass and that worked well so we will aim to […]
Figment Mini Golf has opened! The the MoS Collective’s Composting Micro Bug Food Spiral! Mini Golf will be in progress changing and refining. Come play! We will be visiting the island and making additions and adjustments. The shell trail is not smoothed out yet. So like the Google logo the course will change everyday. I was […]
Map your abundant selves on the Local Abundance map. Grow our new economy and communities by learning about each other and then connecting to each other. Go to: Local Abundance NYC Map Please volunteer to help with this map. We have these cards filled out and many to input. We are a bit back-logged. Please […]
http://www.festivalofideasnyc.com/blog More photos of our festive day to come.