“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
MoS workshop Sponsored by Green Map and Times-Up! MoS workshop at M’Finda Kalunga Community Garden as a part of the Sara D Sustainability Series. Thanks very much for everyone’s support and interest in the symbiotic beneficials and their ability to create healthy succession by working together. Times-up is working on offering free workshop series’ at many new […]
08-09-2012 The MoS Collective taught a bokashi and mud ball workshop for the members of the M’Finda Kalunga Community Garden. It went in to the darkness of the night. The fact that EM•1® microbes co-exist with indigenous microbes is one reason why EM•1® has many varied uses. http://www.mkgarden.org/2012/08/09/sara-d-sustainability-series/ Press: The Villager http://www.mkgarden.org/2012/08/30/excerpt-from-the-villager/ The Masters of […]
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
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 […]
Thank-you everyone who made it to the Beneficial Mud Ball Beneficial Ball. Photos below! I didn’t get the photo ops until Keat Reminded me. More photos maybe to come from other. Check Facebook.com/moscollective also The event started with champagne and strawberries courtesy of Greg Sherman. Then Shig stated with an explanation of beneficial microbes 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. […]
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 […]
MoS Collective: SATURDAY JULY 30th Weeksville Heritage Center hosted the NYFA sponsored project with Laundromat Project and Immigrants Arts event called “Seeding the City”. Miki Katagiri proposed Beneficial Mud Ball bioremediation class. The MoS Collective went along to help her teach: Shig, TIm, Naoko, Keat & DD. People came from a far to learn about […]
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, […]
Mapping the watersheds for abundance at the New Museum Festival of Ideas for a New City! Shig Matsukawa will be offering effective microbe workshops at the MoS Collective Tent! ( In the park just below Houston betwn Chrystie and Forsythe) Come by the Masters of Succession: MoS tent to map out where you live in […]
Connecting to the Earth for Abundance Summer Saturdays w Shig ! All Summer! RSVP to make sure it is happening. Recycle Food Waste Workshop For fermenting food into soil WHEN: Saturdays: 2-4pm WHERE: at El Jardin 5th St Between Ave B and Ave C, NY NY RSVP: www.recyclefoodwaste.org to make reservation FREE: donations appreciated but not necessary […]
4/2: we had a fun group. Everyone was very excited ofcourse. We made a lot of mud balls — around 200. 4/23: More new stories! Really it is just never the same. This time we talked a lot about pets, animals and EM due to the recent NY Post write up. Shig shared some interesting stories about […]
Saturday April 23, 2011 1-5 pm At Jimmy’s No. 43 : 43 East 7th St. NY, NY 10003 (backroom) RSVP Space is limited: Indicate for which PARTS : 1. food scraps or 2. cleaning with beneficial microbes or both. Register at www.mudballs.eventbrite.com NEXT bioremediating mud ball will be in the evening happy hours Next Bokashi fermented food waste […]
Photos from yesterday’s Feb 19,2011. Brunch, Bokashi & Mud Ball workshop at Jimmy’s No. 43 on 7th St. in the East Village, NYC. Our next date there is March 12, 2011. We had the workshop in romantic cozy “bar lighting” which worked out well but not for the camera. We […]
… yet always room for more! Next time we will have more of everything for more people. Great discussions and muddy hands were cleaned and nourished while building the Mud Ball stock pile for June Figment. Exciting discussion on germs, germination, microbes, bacteria and health. Stay tuned for next dates for Brunch, Bokashi & Mud Balls […]
Workshop/Brunch: Making Bokashi & Water Cleaning Mud Balls!
Making Bokashi & Water Cleaning Mud Balls!
Part 1. 1:00 – 2:00 pm – Bokashi: making bran for fermenting kitchen scraps for rich soil for growing your own food.
Part 2. 2:30 – 3:00 pm – Role of effective microorganisms in our life: talk.
Part 3. 3:30 – 4:30 pm – Mud ball making for cleaning waterways and Good microbe plans for house and dog run cleaning.