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 […]
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”
“How do I use my fermented food waste around trees?” Shig replies: For trees, bury at least 3 feet away, and likely you’ll have to dig pits instead of a trench because of the tree roots (for some trees, the roots may go out as far as 3 times its height). Make sure to keep […]
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 = […]
[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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Gooey Gross Garbage System . Here is a visualisation of our food waste from our kitchen through it’s gooey life ultimately resulting in crispy toad prune people. We know when we put our food waste in the garbage it putrefies, smell, attracts rodents and bugs. So we keep the lid closed and wipe it […]
In the Gowanus clean up EM-1 potentially could help everywhere in the plan. It may be in the details of the plan or it may not be. To add EM-1 to all phases over 8 yrs would add how much to the estimate? – The current estimate for the clean up is: $506 million dollars […]
(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
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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. […]
I was in the woods this week end and discovered that I might crave lichen. (Artistically, I occasionally portray a character from parallel civilization under the ocean. The tribe lives in symbiotic harmony with their ecology – “biocentric” perhaps would fit.) During a sauna here I decided this was a beautiful atmosphere for a photographic […]
Learn more about Effective Microorganisms (EM) from the editor of the EM Journal and about EM in Germany. Pit Mau is the managing director of EM e.V., a nonprofit organization in Germany that publishes the EM Journal for which he is also the editor. He will be visiting New York City, and if you would […]
Inspiring book about Living Systems in Evolution: EarthDance by Elizabet Sahtouris (it has a special thanks to Jim Lovelock and the late Lynn Margulis) Read for Free online: http://www.ratical.org/LifeWeb/Erthdnce/ AMAZON: http://www.amazon.com/EarthDance-Systems-Evolution-Elisabet-Sahtouris/dp/0595130674
Rolando Politi (aka: Kappo Kappino on Facebook) has started a women’s co-op in India. Rolando conjured up genius recycled art for the MoS contributions to the MoRUS fashion show and now he is on to DEHLI to start a very small factory as a first step for women rag pickers. The women will be […]
“Help Ensure Gowanus Cleanup Includes Toxic and Sewage Overflows Riverkeeper and our Brooklyn partners celebrated the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to include sharp reductions in sewage overflows as part of the proposed Superfund cleanup targeting toxic waste in the Gowanus Canal. Tackling combined sewage overflow (CSO) discharges, which typically occur during rain and wash high volumes […]
A good introduction to Permaculture by Geoff Lawton for TedX City 2.0. He is a renowned permaculture designer and teacher from Australia.
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 […]
The LUNGs Harvest Arts Festival Every Fall! The lower East Side Garden Arts Festival. There were amazing offerings of art making at 25 gardens throughout the lower east side. The Masters of Succession is set-up at La Plaza Cultural. The MoS Collective offers the MoS Laboratory Recipes at La Plaza Cultural Community Garden a whirlwind making a mess […]
The 25 Garden Harvest Arts Festival!! Come to la plaza community garden this Sat/Sun 1-4 as a part of the Harvest Arts Festival to MoS LaborAtOry: make your own — orange blossom serendipity body lotion, — ginger-experiMINT toothpaste — Koala Wash eucalyptus all purpose surface wash Oh and — Beneficial Mud Balls ofcourse that revitalize […]
www.times-up.org just received the 1000 used Dutch bikes in good condition which they are also fixing-up. 160$ each. (includes membership to Times-up for free bike repair workshops!) Don’t rent .. just buy the bike. These bikes are fun and safe to ride.. come try one out and see for yourself. So far it’s unanimous. Open Thursday […]
This comes thru food+tech. http://www.foodandtechconnect.com/site/2012/08/28/relay-foods-to-scale-local-online-grocery-in-mid-atlantic-us/ DC/Va/Richmond area: RelayFoods.com a new online food buying model connecting good local farm food (and distant farm food) to people yet keeping the people to people connections. Food delivery has failed in the suburbs but here is a model which works in the burbs. My happy observation is that in […]
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 […]
Southampton NY. August 8th 2012 After swimming in bioluminesence in a bay near my friend’s house, visiting the ponds and lakes around South Hampton with Gary Glanz and receiving an email about the Mill River Pond that is full of phosphorus I decided to do some catching up on phosphorus in Wikipeadia. The lakes I visited […]
(Dutch only Click to page for link to activate) http://www.focus-wtv.tv/video/modderballen-voor-zuiver-water EM Mudballs Movement in Belgium As a part of the EM Mudball Movement, our partner in Belgium organized a pilot project to purify a pond using EM™ mudballs. This is the first time that EM™ Mudballs are applied to treat sludge in Belgium. The Focus WTV […]
DD Maucher in Sag Harbor talking about the MoS Collective and water healing mud balls.
July 7 2012 Gowanus is doable? [meaning it can be cleaned-up partly with EM-1] PSM in a quick email… “Yes, compared to the biological capacity of the Gowanus edges low water volume because it is shallow relatively rapid diffusion rate because the volume is relatively small, and large comparative volume of tidal input and comported […]