Okay, but it is still good maybe? YES! depends on your nose. It is the Pediococcus that has gotten inside somehow. A naturally occuring bacteria. It is considered a contaminant when making beer and Activated EM. Here’s what Susan Greenfield wrote, an EM-1 seller, family farmer, and large scale bokashi composter at El SOl Brilliante Garden […]
Claudia Keel, nutritionist herbalist, is the chapter head for the Westen A Price Foundation — NYC Chapter. She coordinates opportunities to buy on line and pick up traditional foods in NYC. They have a facebook page with a web site to come. facebook.com/WAPF.NYC It was at El Jardin Garden in the East Village, NYC. I […]
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. […]
Human Microbiome Project Decodes our 100 Trillion Good Bacteria http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/14/health/human-microbiome-project-decodes-our-100-trillion-good-bacteria.html?pagewanted=2
By JAY LINDSAY, Associated Press http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hgFGzyoPMhDX-6vrhR4mgCypVcEg?docId=981a2a956b5c4078a8eacc63d80aaa56
Hi world, New Successive Hat!! Buy an authentic Miki Katagiri Super Sun Shade Hat. It IS GOOD FOR YOU: This wide brim hat you will protect your eyes as well as your face and back of the neck from sun damage. Also use to a natural SPF 4 is the highest natural sunscreen. White Zinc […]
Yes, Mud Balls have been proven to do clean polluted waterways, ocean bays. lakes and rivers around the world. Large bays like Panang Bay was cleaned up in 3 years. Help us do a patch test in the Gowanus. With this we aim to substantiate a city wide clean up of our waterways using EM-1 […]
Early this season I took a bucket of finagled bokashi fermented Food waste to sandwich in the terrace planters. Then I put in the seeds. I have never grown parsley from seed very well. Piece a cake. Look at how tall this grass is behind this wild tiger. It is twice as high as usual […]
From the seed exchange circle at the OWS Farmers Solidarity celebration event and march I was given hand picked black bean seeds from the Trail of Tears in Asheville, NC. I have planted the seeds and have several growing very well in the La Plaza Garden and on a Bushwick Terrace.
In this film research we are defrosting 1960’s Reston to see if there is anything there we can learn to help the next generation build places for our new regenerative lifestyles. Raising Reston is the story of trials and tribulations of Mr. Simon’s life and how he managed to build a thriving new town from […]
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Terra preta (literally “black earth” in Portuguese) is a type of very dark, fertile anthropogenic soil found in the Amazon Basin. Terra preta owes its name to its very high charcoal content, and was indeed made by adding a mixture of charcoal, bone, and manure to the otherwise relatively infertile Amazonian soil over many […]
6th Annual Spring free SEED CELEBRATION Saturday, April 21, 201211am – 3pm The Old Stone House in Washington Park, Park Slope, BK (btwn 3rd & 4th St and 4th & 5th Ave) – seed art – seed sales – seed trading – seed saving library – seed saving kit raffle – guess that seed! – hands-on learning – […]
A friend of the Gowanus Conservancy took me to this hidden spot on the canal. We walked from The Old Stone House educational museum I’n Brooklyn half way between that the 4th Ave R train. This grass roots conservancy has built up a natural ecosystem on the bank of the canal. Surrounded by industry and […]
This is a good overall resource for using the beneficial bacteria EM-1. This was sent out as a response for settlement use at Occupy 2011. Also mentioned for the pooping potential solutions discussed but never materialized. Not sure what they did when McD’s was closed. EM-1 bacteria solution loves waste. Shig brings it on straight. […]
As we ramp up for a presentation to start Mud Balls in NYC Schools… this article by Dr.Teruo Higa is sent to me by Shig. Read about the results of “A million Apologies to Mother Earth” project in Panang where over a million beneficial mud balls were thrown into the sea . Dr. Teruo Higa talks of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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” […]
I didn’t think this was going to be such a big deal so I didn’t take a before photo. A large paint brush I used to put the cement on to the Snail Shell of the Mini Golf.. it hardened full of cement. So I tried my best.. then gave up.. threw it in […]
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 […]
Jessica Green: Are we filtering the wrong microbes?
Note from Shig Matsukawa: ” I think this is important since radioactive materials (fallout) are being detected throughout the world. this is Higa’s monthly message at EMROJapan.com: “The Damage Done by Radiation is Not Just Due to Radiation…” http://emrojapan.com/monthly-message/content/423.html After reading the above, you can click on “Previous” in the linked webpage above or click […]
ABOUT EL JARDIN del PARAISO El Jardin plan: GaiaInstituteNY.org We visited El Jardin during permaculture certification with the wetlands expert, Bill Young. Paul Mankeiwicz explains this process at the garden at the annual MoS Mud Ball Ball and Oyster Shuck. This property is believed to be the first biogeochemical cap and storm water capture parkland in the […]
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, […]
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 […]
Eric is the distributor for EM-1 in North America. He has produced many products with EM — even a delicious beer! He talks of a wider vision of EM-1. http://youtu.be/_WRBTKc3CYQ
Watch a clip of the documentary and read Luz Grace Terranova’s writing on The Amazon Mycorenewal Project (AMP) in Ecuador which is cleaning up the Chevron Oil Spills that have polluted local drinking water.