Archive for Workshops

Accepting Kayak Outing proposals

Instigator at MoS Collective, Dee Dee Maucher and several volunteers of HarborLab have been given the opportunity to  create our own outings when the kayaks are not being used.  DD has an American Canoe Association Certification, Water rescue, CPR and first aid. Send Ideas and proposals that will help create the beneficial succession of air, […]

9/22-9/24: LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival Weekend! with us Sunday!

I’m pleased to announce (updated 9/19)  LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival Weekend! Free in the Loisaida Community Gardens!  9/22-24 Sun. We have 3 Harvest Arts  — stop in!  1. Weaving Willow at The Art of Wellness with Community Acupuncture 2. Garbagia Universe A fashion show depicting a Japanese story of evolution. (Look for the Hydroponic Vortex) […]

Sunday 4/09 Review: Deeply Dandelion

Wow ! What a way splendid Sunday! Thank you for coming and bringing your bright selves. You are why it’s great.  Sunday, the grass was being reseeded for our future luxury. We were all spread out around the garden which was fun to see.Ann got some of us into morning shaking,  some added Thai Chi […]

1/8/17 East Village Wellness Circle 2nd Sunday

It Snowed Saturday, sooo cozy indoors we go!    East Village Wellness Circle: a mutual aid offer and/or receive gathering. WHEN:  Monthly 2nd Sunday TIME: 2 pm – 5pm WHERE:   Indoor  at 21 Ave C, between First and Second Street: Community Room Free, open to the public. (Pics from 1/8 below) Bring: A small jar […]

Swale Hosts MoS Micro-remediation Workshop

Micro-remediation at Swaleny.org the floating food forest getting into symbiosis.  We had a fun class in a great location for micro remediation talk. Shig described microorganisms, bacteria, how the microbes work. Relating their symbiotic nature we have with microbes in our foods and into our guts. I learned from the soil lecture again that toxins bind to […]

10/2 3pm Microremediating Beneficial Mud Ball Workshop at Swale’s Floating Food Forest

Part 2 of 6 of a Bioremediation Series Microorganism Workshop 3 pm Food Forest Barge,  Swaleny.org At Brooklyn Bridge Park $15,  Bring a kid is two for one. REGISTRATION NECESSARY :  Space is limited:  HERE Making Beneficial Mud Balls:  balls of dirt fermented with EM-1 effective microorganism inoculate inside. Thrown into polluted waterways they revitalized […]

3/10 & 3/24 Thur Bokashi EM-1 Workshop Series

Bokashi Series Part 1 – Jan 27 How to recycle all food waste back to the soil. Part 2 – Feb 11 How to make the bokashi fermentation starter. Part 3 – March 10, 2016  Advanced bokashi Inquiries: https://www.facebook.com/events/1057616977592319/ Part 4 – March 24, 2016  Other uses like beneficial mud balls : https://www.facebook.com/events/1060830453959747/ at Italo’s […]

10/3 Sat. MoS at the BK Permaculture Skill Share Festival!

. Brooklyn Skill Share Festival At the Old Stone House in Washington Park, Park Slope, BK 10-4 pm. $10 Feel free to add to the potluck of country pie, zucchini bread and butternut squash soup. Pizza toppings, drinks and more food are welcome. .   Want to Participate Mud Village’s Ephemeral Piazza? We are combining […]

Thanks Earthdance Embodiers! Until we meet again.

Thanks everyone at Earthdance!  (MoS participants come next Spring Work Weekend!) It was fantastico tempo as usual. Ask Andrea or Bettie first timers or Diana, Masters of Succession participants. Friday night we arrived during Kelsey’s birthday kitchen dance party! Saturday Bettie an I helped Permi Farmer Will harvest medicinals around the property, “chop n drop”ed […]

Sept 26 Sat. “Art of Wellness” Circle & Picnic

“The Art Of Wellness” Circle WHEN: Saturday 9/26 TIME: 11-2 pm WHERE: El Jardin del Paraiso (large green space between Ave C/Ace D between 5th St/4th Streets.) Free.  Hosted by Dee Dee Maucher of MoS (2nd S is invisible) Collective and Wendy Henry of Acupuncture Mobile Services and Community Relief & Rebuilding through Education & Wellness (CRREW) […]

May Series: 6 Meet & Eats

SPRING SCHEDULE Series of MudBall Meet & Eats. Break bread with us & take part in growing the village. & Ephemeral Piazza that hosts the MudBall Ball. Working on energy, ephemeral village making, art, self-care, & bioremediation. • Share Shortlink:  http://wp.me/p2bm5T-3ge

BiomimicryNYC: Urban Green Harbors Workshop Breakwater

Wendy Brawer, of Green Map, offered me her place at the Biomimicry workshop since she couldn’t make it.  Thanks! ofcourse! It was a lot of fun. Also the day before I and a few MoS participants were part of another visioning in Rockaway.  I went an sat with 40 others for a basic overview of […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

The 2nd Northeast Permaculture Open Space

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 […]

PharmaSeed Game

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 […]

Pit Mau, German Expert EM-1 visited

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 […]

9/13 EM-1 at Earthdance

(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. […]

7/20 Kingston Hudson Rising

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We need your help: Join us in Sandy Relief with EM-1.

Announcing EM•1 SANDY Relief: with a Google Group: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/em-nyc Join the group and take a leadership role in this process. Contact us to be a leader. We will train you and teach you everything you need to know. It is not a long learning curve and it is a green business! Heal a disaster zone as […]

S21-22-23: Side-Shift à la carte NYC-update

Update: Monday 9/24: wonderful weekend. If anyone wants to put something together like this I can help you. (mixing site specific dance/contact /biking/ somatic studies/urban sustainability/arts) Next: starting to work on loisida garden’s Harvest Arts Festival’s MoS LabORATory Arts. Oct 5, 6, 7. A few Photos from our roamings: lots from the art faire on […]

Harvest Arts Festival in the Gardens

10/6 & 7: Saturday & Sunday, 12pm until 5pm. The “Harvest Arts Festival in the Gardens” is taking place on Saturday, October 6 and Sunday October 7 from noon until 5pm. The festival is a celebration of life on the Lower East Side in 12 community gardens. It is free and open to all. Each […]

Workshop Pics: Microbes at M’Finda Kalunga Garden LES NYC

MoS workshop Sponsored by Green Map and Times-Up! MoS workshop at M’Finda Kalunga Community Garden as a part of the Sara D Sustainability Series. Thanks very much for everyone’s support and interest in the symbiotic beneficials and their ability to create healthy succession by working together. Times-up is working on offering free workshop series’ at many new […]

EM-1 At Sara D Sustainability Series

08-09-2012 The MoS Collective taught a bokashi and mud ball workshop for the members of the M’Finda Kalunga Community Garden.  It went in to the darkness of the night. The fact that EM•1® microbes co-exist with indigenous microbes is one reason why EM•1® has many varied uses. http://www.mkgarden.org/2012/08/09/sara-d-sustainability-series/ Press:  The Villager http://www.mkgarden.org/2012/08/30/excerpt-from-the-villager/ The Masters of […]

8/24 EM-1 Workshop

Friday, AUGUST 24, 2012 EM-1 Boakshi food waste into fertilizer and Beneficial Mud balls for waterway cleaning! With Times-Up! & Green Map Workshop Series M’Finda Kalunga Garden, NYC,  Lower East Side Garden Susan Greenfield and DD Maucher will be teaching EM, Bokashi and Mud Balls. Time/ INFO TO COME. 6:30pm TIMES-Up.org LOCATION LINK: View Larger Map […]

Sag Harbor Workshop Glowed

Sag Harbor Aug 7th 2012: Teach in recap: MoS, Dee Dee and Lisa Shafir,  just gave a workshop in Long Island. We did a super fun teach in with WISE : Women’s Initiatives for a Sustainable Earth. DD linked it with the introductory Greek ritual dance we were taught and permaculture grander vision. We introduced the […]

Teach-in Picnic

DD Maucher in Sag Harbor talking about the MoS Collective and water healing mud balls.