Archive for Workshops

Oct. WORKSHOPS & PARTIES

FALL 2012 October 6 and 7: the weekend Harvest Arts Festival! Lower East Side Community Gardens — free Produced by LUNGS NYC.org (lower East Side Community Gardens) (Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens) At La Plaza Garden (9th St / Ave B-C) MoS’S LaboRAtory of Arts: We will be teaching and making Beneficial Mud Balls body lotion all […]

MoS: Raising Funds to Clean Gowanus w/EM-1 Mud Balls!

Help test treat the Gowanus Canal with beneficial microorganisms! The microbial solution eats the waste, breaks down toxins and binds the metals so they can not be absorbed by living things. Double your money on IOBY this month! https://ioby.org/project/beneficial-mud-balls-gowanus Helping at the root of the problem for long-term benefits. The program includes: workshops and fun interactive […]

February 2013: Help Green Haiti Tour

Haiti Post Earthquake Reconstruction and Cultural Preservation Tour February 2013, Date: TBD Workshops | Composting | Aquaponics | Beekeeping | Entrepreneurship Reposting, download PDF. Please share. My NYC Permaculture friend, Ki Ki, is hosting this workshop in his country of Haiti. He has been working on this for several years and this will be a wonderful opportunity for learning, helping and understanding. […]

A Visit to The Center for Bioregional Living

June 17, 2012: MoS Chief Instigator, Dee Dee, went to visit the for the final presentations of Andrew Faust and Adriana Magaña’s Permacutlure Design Course. A big milestone because this is the first course they are presenting at their new center in Ellenville, their homestead.  I was fortunate to be invited to watch the presentations, meet […]

Pics: Mud Ball Class at Trilok

Masters of Succession are teaching teachers how to make Beneficial Mud Balls to bioremediate the waterways. The EM-1 microbial solution is fermented inside them. This is on rainy day hosted by Vandra, of Vokashi Service fame, set us up. She also was able to get some dirt– on the-not-dry-so-dry-side. Lol– so this batch is very […]

March 3rd: Beneficial Mud Ball Workshop in Ft Greene

March 3, 2012, 11 am SAT It’s at Trilok in Brooklyn, Fort Greene. 143 Waverly Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205 map Each month Vokashi holds demonstrations on fermenting food waste and other applications of EM-1 in water and soil remediations at Trilok Fusion Center. Vokashi is pleased that the MOS Collective will lead this hands on demonstration of making EM-bokashi […]

Canning: Winter Treats!

Great fun outside today Sunday 9-11-11: canning– jarring. We learned the basics in canning food. A nice way to commemorate 9-11. The jars we made are visually beautiful. We also tasted delicious dilly beans previously made by Molly. Amazingly delicious! Yum! I don’t know if I can wait until winter to eat mine. My grandmother […]

YUM: A Cob Oven Vacation

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” […]

Sept 10: Shiitake Logs: grow your own!

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 […]

Urban Beautification Workshops & Potluck

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 […]

Shig’s Gd Microbe Wkshps Sats at El Jardin!

Connecting to the Earth for Abundance   Summer Saturdays w Shig !   All Summer! RSVP to make sure it is happening. Recycle Food Waste Workshop For fermenting food into soil WHEN:  Saturdays: 2-4pm WHERE:  at El Jardin 5th St Between Ave B and Ave C, NY NY RSVP:  www.recyclefoodwaste.org to make reservation FREE:  donations appreciated but not necessary […]

4/24 BB&M update

4/2: we had a fun group. Everyone was very excited ofcourse. We made a lot of mud balls — around 200. 4/23:  More new stories! Really it is just never the same. This time we talked a lot about pets, animals and EM due to the recent NY Post write up. Shig shared some interesting stories about […]

4/23 Brunch, Bokashi & Mudballs for water cleaning

Saturday April 23, 2011 1-5 pm At Jimmy’s No. 43 : 43 East 7th St. NY, NY 10003 (backroom) RSVP Space is limited: Indicate for which PARTS : 1. food scraps or 2. cleaning with beneficial microbes or both. Register at www.mudballs.eventbrite.com NEXT bioremediating mud ball  will be in the evening happy hours Next Bokashi fermented food waste […]

3/12 Brunch, Bokashi & Healing Mud Balls III Photos

Great fun! Great turn out and feedback! – 25 more people took home the fermented bran for their food scraps. – 200 mudballs for the fling. More later.. packing up. Mud balls are made with DIRT and activated beneficial microbes.

4/2 Brunch, Bokashi & Mud Balls IV: Sat.

Saturday April 2, 2011 1-5 pm At Jimmy’s No. 43 : 43 East 7th St. NY, NY 10003 (backroom) RSVP Space is limited: Indicate for which PARTS : 1. food scraps or 2. cleaning with beneficial microbes or both. Register at www.mudballs.eventbrite.com (next BB&M:  Sat. April 23, 2011) Part 1. 1:00 PM   Pickle Kitchen […]

Brunch, Bokashi & Mud Balls III: Sat. 3/12

March 12, 2011 – Jimmy’s No. 43 – Join us for brunch III, 1-5 pm Jimmy’s No. 43 – 43 East 7th St. NY, NY 10003 (backroom) $5 beer special,  $5 brunch special!  (locally grown & made ingredients) RSVP Space is limited. – Go to www.mudballs.eventbrite.com – email: dd at moscollective dot net Indicate for which […]

Brunch, Bokashi & Mudballs II: Photos

Photos from yesterday’s Feb 19,2011. Brunch, Bokashi & Mud Ball workshop at Jimmy’s No. 43 on 7th St. in the East Village, NYC.  Our next date there is March 12, 2011. We had the workshop in romantic cozy “bar lighting” which worked out well but not for the camera.           We […]

Brunch, Bokashi & Mud Balls at Jimmy’s No. 43

Saturday Free Workshop, Feb 19, 2011! 1-5 pm Join us for brunch at Jimmy’s No. 43, 43 East 7th St. NY, NY 10003 (backroom) $5 beer special,  $5 brunch special!  (locally grown & made ingredients) RSVP Space is limited. – Go to www.mudballs.eventbrite.com – email: dd at moscollective dot net Indicate for which PARTS 1, […]

A Muddy Saturday! Packed house!

… yet always room for more! Next time we will have more of everything for more people. Great discussions and muddy hands were cleaned and nourished while building the Mud Ball stock pile for June Figment. Exciting discussion on germs, germination, microbes, bacteria and health. Stay tuned for next dates for Brunch, Bokashi & Mud Balls […]

Brunch: Making Bokashi & Water Cleaning Mud Balls! Feb 5, 2011

Workshop/Brunch: Making Bokashi & Water Cleaning Mud Balls!
Making Bokashi & Water Cleaning Mud Balls!
Part 1. 1:00 – 2:00 pm – Bokashi: making bran for fermenting kitchen scraps for rich soil for growing your own food.
Part 2. 2:30 – 3:00 pm – Role of effective microorganisms in our life: talk.
Part 3. 3:30 – 4:30 pm – Mud ball making for cleaning waterways and Good microbe plans for house and dog run cleaning.

Making BioRemediating Mudballs & Bokashi (brunch & Beer)

Making BioRemediating Mudballs & Bokashi (brunch & Beer!) – The New York Permaculture Meetup Group (New York, NY) – Meetup.com

Breath Made Visible screening/Wrksp Portland Oregon, 9-18

I have seen the film twice and taken her workshop. I would like to go out to interview her for the Reston Film. Her Husband and collaborator was Lawrence Halprin, architect and landscape designer. “There may be a future where more of us will call ourselves artists and work together to make art concerned with […]

R.U.S.T. Oct 2nd to 3rd.

Another Succession winner. Training Workshop in October. Very exciting opportunity. http://radixcenter.org/workshops/rust/ Check out their Sustainable systems. – Low cost and effective.  Imagine a high cost designed systems for beauty and function. http://radixcenter.org/virtual-tours-of-sustainable-systems/ Building cleaner water, air and soil.

Phytoremediation Class 9/11

Expedition Gowanus is proud to present Phytoremediation! A workshop on making low tech, floating water remediation gardens out of trash. — Beauteous and helpful.