> All Ebows IN < Thursday Dec 5, 2013, MoS Elbow (3 yr) MEETING!! Support for your projects visions for '14. To Rsvp for address go to contact page. AFTER PARTY! 8:30 pm at Jimmy's no 43. Jimmy knows we are coming. (Back-up if jam packed and we are not there go to Tile bar, 1st/7th corner. BTW: Tile bar has no name outside.)
Google image search: To find photo information Search “mushroom street art”. I’m looking for real live moss and mushrooms. Can we use the live matter in a system to create more beneficial succession? What are the benefits of moss and mushrooms? What are patterns of waste or excess we can address to use the most […]
http://licpost.com/2013/11/09/guerilla-farmers-legally-allowed-to-put-down-roots-in-lic/ http://m.nydailynews.com/1.1514689
After having to move and reassemble compost bins a few times gardeners at Smiling Hogshead Ranch had the idea of using belts that would easily untie. (A bag of belts at Goodwill cost around $10.) Making Compost Bin Signs Planting fruit trees on either side of the railroad track Gorgeous original SHR Tenant grandfathered in. […]
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. […]
MoS took a road trip to Earthdance retreat center and creative living community. We went up for Sustainability Sunday which I wanted to rename “The Sunday Commons” when I heard about it this summer. The event was created to build community. They Invited Pioneer Valley farmers, congregations, artist groups, businesses, co-operatives, and individuals who just […]
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 […]
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 […]
October 2013, Tues-Friday at Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY. Some women, as myself, stayed after the women’s gathering for The 2nd Northeast Permaculture Open Space. At this event also initiated and organized by Laura Welland at Omega. A separate mens gathering has been requested for next year along side the women’s. Last year was where […]
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 […]
Supporting this women’s bike carting business is also spreading what makes sense. Cars kill, bikes do not. http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/featherstone-two-wheels-green-delivery-equipment-upgrades-for-bike-business
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 […]
Happy Birthday Margaret (Flowers)! You are strong and powerful! You are luminous, love and bountiful energy filling the dark vortexes with your bright self for the anxious seed-multitudes to germinate, which in-turn grow into their creative potentials! Treat yourself today– indulge in what brings bursting joyousness. Don’t forget to fly around laughing in your created […]
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 […]
ECOCOITES 2013 EXCERPT from website: Five main themes: the key issues of the sustainable city . Reducing the ecological footprint: water, air, soil, waste, biodiversity, Addressing the energy challenges of the city: how to decarbonize, reduce consumption and manage the transition, Strengthening solidarity: solidarity among cities, neighborhoods and individuals, Organizing the sustainable city: mobility, […]
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
You want to do what? Being what you do here! Make us you. You is us! No one can not come. LUNGS (Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens) 2nd ANNUAL HARVEST ARTS FESTIVAL IN THE GARDENS Saturday, Sept. 28 & Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013 Friday night 5-7 kids opening fun. Friday adults opening party 7-9 24 Community […]
Appreciations: Thanks 2013 for your lessons and experiences D’s Dad D’s brother + Tara, Jason and Makenna, D’s cousins and uncles and aunts and their kids. Nadette peace museum who was MoS Support for Figment. Anne Teddy MoSers: Naoko for summer mud ball support for mud balls and Wellness and Mud Ball Ball. Tim for […]
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. […]
Just some over the top images of our dinner at Eugene’s. A stop off at the bike fest in the drizzle to get a wonder women star. The bike fest poster On up to Eugene’s gorgeous abundance! Yes these pigs are part of it but not his. They live next door. The Entrance is dripping […]
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 […]
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