FFW Questions: “I now have several buckets of FFW [fermented food waste] and lots of questions. 1. Do any of you know of a compost place that would welcome some FFW to feed their worms? and maybe even on the other side give me back some FFW-fed worm compost? 2. If I find some barren soil and bury my FFW there, do I mix the FFW into the soil when I reclaim the FFW-treated soil? 3. Can you send me to a good website so I can learn more? – Grateful & eager, Maureen”

January 24th, 2014 | Tags: 4. Everything, Ag & Ecology, Beneficial Microbes, bioremediation, community garden, compost, fermentation, microbes, Succession | Category: 1. Beneficial Microbes/Mud Balls, 1. MoS Participatory, 4. Everything, New York City | Comments Off on [Shig:FFW] Fermented Food Waste Drop-off & Trenching

“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 […]

January 15th, 2014 | Tags: Ag & Ecology, Beneficial Microbes, bokashi, Bokashi fermented food waste trees nyc, Commons, community garden, compost, Permaculture, Succession, sustainability | Category: 1. Beneficial Microbes/Mud Balls, 3. Resources, 4. Everything, New York City | Comments Off on [Shig:FFW] Fermented Food Waste around Trees

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 […]

March 29th, 2013 | Tags: activities, community garden, lower East Side, New York City, participatory, Permaculture, Public Space, sustainability, wellness circle | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 4. Everything, New York City | Comments Off on 4/14 2pm 1st Lower East Side Wellness Circle

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 […]

March 19th, 2013 | Tags: community garden, Green Map, lower East Side, Permaculture, Place & space design, Public Space, reclaimed space, siempre verde community garden, storm water, sustainability, Times Up, uban gardens, urban planning, volunteer clean up day | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 4. Everything, New York City | Comments Off on Sunday with Green Map, Times-up! and Siempre Verde Garden

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 […]

August 23rd, 2012 | Tags: 1. MoS Participatory, 4. Everything, Ag & Ecology, Beneficial Microbes, bioremediation, bokashi, community garden, EM Mud Balls, fermentation, Mud Balls, New York City, NYC, Public Space, Succession | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 4. Everything, New York City, Workshops | Comments Off on EM-1 At Sara D Sustainability Series

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.

May 8th, 2012 | Tags: collecting, community garden, food, seeds | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 2. Food & Recipes (new), 4. Everything, New York City | Comments Off on The Trail of Tears Black Bean Seeds

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 […]

July 14th, 2011 | Tags: biogeochemical cap, Commons, community garden, community gardens, empty lots, storm water, urban rubble | Category: 3. Resources, 4. Everything, New York City | Comments Off on Biogeochemical Cap At El Jardin

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 […]

May 1st, 2011 | Tags: bokashi, community garden, El Jardin, event, fermentation, festival of ideas, Get involved, microbes, New Museum, NYC, Shig, soil, workshops | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 4. Everything, 4. Festival of Ideas!, New York City | Comments Off on Fest of Ideas: Shig’s Microbe Workshops!