NYC: Come with the Masters Of Succession and many other groups as we save and spread and grow seeds. http://events.ran.org/occupyourfoodsupply/events/show/5761 Monday, February 27, 2012 at 11:30am/ 2pm / 3pm Occupy Our Food Supply is bringing together the Occupy, sustainable farming, food justice, buy local, slow food, and environmental movements for a global day of action […]
Lower East Side Ecology Center has some exciting news: They are opening a permanent drop-off location for electronic waste! Help us fill this warehouse! Starting January 31st. Dispose of your working and non-working electronics easier than ever before. Bring your unwanted electronics to the Lower East Side Ecology Center’s new permanent e-waste collection center in Gowanus, […]
Some members of MoS went down to Foley Square to support the Farmers as they came out of court on Tuesday am. It was an inspiring day. These family farmers had come along way for this day. (This is just the beginning). They were not happy and very disappointed in the behavior of the judge. […]
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 […]
Some of the Masters Of Succession took a tour of the custom made Greenpeace boat fresh off the press. It was built in Germany for Greenpeace. 25 million or so Euros. First boat of it’s kind with the A frame masts. They are off to the Amazon stopping n nyc for a week. One of […]
http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/sign/farmersmarchv/ Nice video of the OWS Farmers’ March, NYC produced by Food Democracy Now! Looking at problems and solutions. More photos by DD’s phone.
Photo gallery of some of the cards so far. Send us more and we will post them for you! Questions? Contact
Farm Bill Hackathon Makes Tools to Visualize Broad Set of Food & Ag issues . Over the weekend the Farm Bill Hackathon brought together (in person and virtually) 120 designers, data scientists, developers, marketing professionals, food policy experts, and USDA employees, to “hack” one of the most important pieces of legislation in the U.S. – the […]
Click to view the gallery of card postings from the OWS Food Solidarity Map. This interactive map was started at the Farmers’ March at La Plaza Cultural Community Garden, NYC, 12/4/2011. Send your additions: Location | Problem | Solution | Contact info Indicate if you want the contact listed online or not Gallery: http://moscollective.net/11-12-04-Farmers-March-FooD-Solidarity-Map/
Valerie Green/Dance Entropy Jan. 20-22, 2012: Baruch Performing Arts Center, NYC Rise and Fall choreographic dance work is based on the cycle of a civilization running the following cycle: a new beginning, tracing footprints and remnants of the past, developing population, agriculture, industrialization, modernization, gross consumption, awareness, terror, population dissipation and knowledge to begin again. […]
Food+Tech Connect and Gojee are bringing together journalists, technologists, designers, policy makers, and food data specialists to develop tools and visualizations that help the public better understand how the Farm Bill impacts our lives. The hackathon will take place as part of the International Open Data Hackathon. The Farm Bill effects us all – influencing […]
“Guerrilla gardening is the occupation of ill-used land to support the communities and ecosystems.” guerrillagardening.org. Vimeo: Students from Sterling College in Vermont came down to Occupy Wall Street and showed us how to plant and sow seeds anywhere where there is soil. Grow winter greens and beets right in the parks flower beds. They spoke […]
“Legos are expensive” donation box. Apparently some Occupy activists are having good results by requesting donations for needs. This one, very nice person, was not interested in free Legos from Lego. He is independent. The Occupy Arts offered him something but he said no, he is independent. We showed him the bottle cap collection as […]
Envisioning the Queens Highline South Queens Greenway Image by Jennifer Cromie, Newtownards,UK More design ideas on the link.
Thursday early 10/27 all the generators were removed from OWS. An urgent call went out for more bike power by sundown. There was not enough time to receive the ones on order. Boston Occupy offered 5 bikes. At 2pm there was a van on it’s way. Bike power is the right kind of thinking. Some […]
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. […]
Vimeo video: Link to video Permaculture at OWS There is now an OSW Permaculture group. For those of you who want to participate the second meeting is Thursday 13, 5:30 at the red cube which is a private space where sit down meetings can not occur for very long. If it moves look for postings […]
Click on image for video of last years event. I’d like to meet this boat. A Green Street Fair put on by GreenHOME NYC.org
Andrew Faust who introduced a few of MoS Collectives to Permaculture is speaking FOR FREE tomorrow: La Plaza Cultural Garden Thursday, at 6:30pm- 7:30pm. Between B and C on 9th St. NYC Faust, NYC’s long time Permaculture scholar, brings together Permaculture and Bioregionalism: two elegant design models that show us how to heal ourselves while […]
La Plaza Cultural is the location for the annual Loisida Latin Film Festival. My first attendance. Really nice short films. High quality, well done and interesting. Serendipity: I ran into two old friend from college days. Earlier I helped Ross clear the entwined morning glories from the back fence.they are blocking the sun from the […]
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 […]
Beautiful: Dancing with Dolphins And Dancing with Horses Showing CRS nyc Sept 17, 2011 http://www.crsny.org/110801/filmvideo-show-tell-dancing-animals?utm_source=CRS&utm_campaign=110917+Dancing+with+Animals&utm_medium=email
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 […]
HONEY FEST WEB SITE on the Rockaway boardwalk! MoS Collective’s mascots is a formation of 3 flying bees ” The Thunderbees”. Bees are important to succession. Firefly Concierge will be there representing our like minded attributes. I’m looking forward to bee keeping at La Plaza eventually. If you want to try beekeeping drop us a […]
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” […]
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 […]
Permaculture Movement Grows from Underground 2011/07/28 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/28/garden/permaculture-emerges-from-the-underground.html?_r=2&emc=eta1 (this is late bc the upload failed on the 29th so I’m redoing the upload)
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 […]