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 = […]
Sunday once a month at Dixon Place, Lower East Side. NYC The Secret City celebrates creative life and community. Part Salon, Part cabaret, super fun and social. (with free child care). Program below. What great Sunday morning music! Playing Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground. You tube Secret City and I’m sure something will come […]
By Gil Lopez Sat. 11/23, I presented a workshop on entomophagy entitled “Discover Edible Insects” at the Queens Library at Steinway. Since I am in no way an expert on the topic, I used this slide show I found on the internet. http://www.slideshare.net/GreggFlaharty/bio-slide-show-3” I was inspired to offer this presentation after hearing of and scanning […]
[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. […]
Early Fall 2013 — A New MoS members! The Smiling Hogshead Ranch is a guerrilla community farm in Long Island City. Ground was broken on this one acre parcel in Spring of 2011 The property is owned by the MTA and the group of gardeners are working towards formalizing a garden license agreement. It is […]
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 […]
June 2013 photos of The MoS Stockpile of Beneficial Mud balls 2013 3rd presence at The NYC Figment Festival! The Peace Parade with Nadette Stasa’s Peace Museum came by to toss some in! Many of the Masters of Succession were there to toss a mud ball! Thanks to MoS townies Shig Masukawa, Kappo Kappino, Stephanie […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
MoS Collective’s Commissioner, Tim Paulson, is working with a Dutch historian, Hubert de Leeuw, to write a book and produce a documentary of the Two Row Treaty, 1613. The treaty and wampum belt were made and “signed” between the Dutch, at the time just a small colony on Governors Island, the Mohicans and the Haudenosaunee. […]
The May 2013 Bioremediation Celebration The Mud Ball Beneficial Mud Ball! This was super fun.. Thank you for everyone who helped! Next year there will be more organizations involved and more bioremediation skills to share and partake in. End of May 2014! Thank you: Jimmy’s No 43 for local beer, Bob White’s for buttermilk biscuits, […]
“Together is better,” she said, adding that building mutually beneficial relationships will ultimately result in surplus, not scarcity. How can the city work like an ecosystem?” Cities can be more generous: a city could build fertile soil, filter air, clean water, sequester carbon, cool the surrounding temperature, provide biodiversity and produce food. There’s “a nice […]
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. […]
Learn to make Beneficial Mud Balls with MoS Collective at this festival. We will make some with you and have some dry to throw which will help nourish and eat the waste in the marina water. We will have a limited quantity of bokashi & EM Activated starter bran for sale for those of you […]
This year the stockpile of mud balls will be located at the same spot — water east side of Castle Williams on Governors Island. The balls of Effective Microorganisms will arrive by cargo bike in the Peace Parade co-hosted by Times-up and The Peace Museum. The mud balls are a diverse mixing of microbes that live in […]
Sunday A Bioremediation Participation Celebration!! with raw oysters and local beers, mud balls, seed bombs, the sound/cargo bike and bokashi. 1:30-2:30 The ride: Seed ball throwing music ride. Ride ends at The Mud Ball! Co-hosted by Times-up.org. Meet at Gaia tree Tompkins Square Park. FACEBOOK invite 3 pm – 7 pm The Ball: at El Jardin Del Paraiso […]
Sunday LES Wellness Circle! First of the series! Sunday April 14, 2-5 RSVP incase rain or cancellation. La Plaza Cultural Community Garden 9 St at Ave C Come as an (insured) practitioner or come to receive, to share information & to make plans for more gatherings. No charge. Passing hat for contributions to supplies. Gratuities for […]
Be creative n’ active w MoS. Become a MoStownie! Participate and add your creativity, idea, projects to the town. To get started send an email with what your interests for the cool town of MoS. A virtual everywhere place where the by product of everything we do is good also for the water, air and […]
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 […]
The day started with a tour around the edges of the Lower East Side with Green Map and Wendy Brawer and Ben Shepard of Times-up! The tour also was a discussion which looked into potential solutions for future flooding. The water marks basically were close to the original edge from this map of the Lower East […]
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 […]
The MoS costumes seek to use materials that benefit the air, water and soil. The event was orchestrated brilliantly by The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space. The Masters of Succession Collective designed with a life cycle in mind. We consider from where the garment comes, the function and where it goes after finished. We try to make costumes […]
Great, fun SHOW!!! MoS’s Fashion collaborations descriptions for The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space: The Masters of Succession included collaborations from Kappo Kappino: Taer & Ware pieces for ‘instant reincarnation” (he is in blue face, feed-bag skirt); DD’s MoS Beneficial Mud Ball Beneficial “Mud Ball Ball Gowns” (hulahoop skirts) with Lisa Shaub compostable paper hats […]
WIth Masters Of Succession Costumes… come see. Sat Feb 9 at 7 pm. 155 Ave C between 9th and 10th St. NYC 10009 Post show photos to come.. come back.
Friday, January 11 and continuing with a day-long conference on Saturday, January 12 at the New School. The event is free, but registration is required. Register now. http://mas.org/join-us-next-week-charting-the-road-to-resilience-from-the-ground-up/
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 […]
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 […]