Pleased to announce for The LUNGS HARVEST ARTS FESTIVAL Artists Make, Talk & Walk Sunday 9/24 5pm – 6pm at El Jardin Del Paraiso 311 East 4th St. NY NY 10009 The MoS Collective: Masters of Beneficial Succession present: Artists: Make, Talk & Walk 1. ARTISTS MAKE The Art of Beneficial Mud Balls with artists. […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
Food + Tech is one of my favorite meet ups with Danielle. I biked to filthy mid town for this in 100 degree heat. Natural heat I don’t mind but the heat from cars /trucks and energy hog buildings is nasty. Vents were spewing out more heat. I have a sore throat from talking so […]
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 […]
Calling For PARY PANTS People! Figment: JUNE 10-12. 1. Roving Gang of MICRO BUG FOOD SPIRAL People AKA: ROVING COMPOST APPREHENDERS 2. MICRO BUG FOOD SPIRAL Mini Golf 3. Mud Ball Stockpiles ————————————————————————- 1. CALLING Food Spiralers: Gang of Roving Compost Collectors Usurping Compostables from People Want something fun to do at Figment this year? […]
The Compost Microbe Bug Food Spiral Mini Golf Hole http://www.indiegogo.com/FIGMENT-2011-Minigolf-Course Donations For MINI GOLF! Please donate! Each mini golf hole budget is $1000 in materials. They all have to be on raised platforms ($500). I suggested a $5 donation. #7 The Composting Micro Bug Food Spiral by Dee Dee Maucher of The MoS Collective http://newyork.figmentproject.org/long-term-exhibitions/2011figment-minigolf/ The multitudinous […]
La Ville en Vert, by the Montreal Urban Ecology Centre, has a project where renters together plan, design, and renovate their neighborhoods to reduce urban heat islands — white roofs, trees, plants. This is a fun project for MoS to start partner maybe with ecological architects and landscapers and (one at least) composting programs in the […]
Permaculture Design Certification is one of those mandatory courses for all humans. – dd __ Permaculture Certificate Programs The New York Permaculture-Exchange Urban Permaculture Accelerated Training begins April 30 To register contact: oldstonehouse@verizon.net Urban Permaculture Accelerated Training & Urban Permaculture Design Certificate Saturdays 9am – 5pm April 30, May 14 & 21, June 4 & 11 […]
VIDEO: The day before I went to the pillow fight I interviewed RR. As I was logging and digitizing I noticed these pillows would be good b-roll. Newmindspace presents: Pillow Fight NYC Sixth annual massive pillow fight in New York City. Teddies fly and pillows soar as we gather for […]
Great fun! Great turn out and feedback! – 25 more people took home the fermented bran for their food scraps. – 200 mudballs for the fling. More later.. packing up. Mud balls are made with DIRT and activated beneficial microbes.
Saturday April 2, 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 BB&M: Sat. April 23, 2011) Part 1. 1:00 PM Pickle Kitchen […]
We have designed a golf hole for the Figment Govenors Island Mini Golf for 2011. The theme is Bugs and Features. We were invited to make a composting mini-golf to go along with our roaming gang of master composters at the Figment Festival this year. MoS’s Micro Bug Food Spiral Mini Golf hole: Volunteer artisans, […]
On-going costume and puppet workshops until May 22 — the parade. They started in the East Village parading to all the gardens. Each garden had activities for kids and adults. I remember stopping by a few of them. They were magical amongst the garden flowers, ponds and plants. If I were a little kid I […]
On Saturday May 7th, 11-7p MoS Collective at The StreetFair: MoS Collective will be presenting “Indulge in Abundance” workshops at the New Museum Festival of Ideas for the New City : a Street Fair. Come by so we can map your needs and resources. Also we will have workshops in making mud balls and homemade cleaning […]
A.H. Green, worked with Olmsted on Central Park. He was the major reason we have the Met, the Natural History, the Public Library, the Bronx Zoo and he was behind Riverside Park, Morningside Park, Washington Park. Now those spaces are precious. He preserved the Palisades, Niagara, City Hall… More about Green in the MUG in […]
March 12, 2011 – Jimmy’s No. 43 – Join us for brunch III, 1-5 pm Jimmy’s No. 43 – 43 East 7th St. NY, NY 10003 (backroom) $5 beer special, $5 brunch special! (locally grown & made ingredients) RSVP Space is limited. – Go to www.mudballs.eventbrite.com – email: dd at moscollective dot net Indicate for which […]
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 […]
FROM Transit Aletrnative’s newsletter: It’s ridiculous that bicyclists are being summonsed while circling a park. Adults are not required by law to wear a helmet; it is not illegal to occupy a full lane of traffic; exiting a bike lane to avoid an obstruction (like this perhaps – below) is entirely legitimate. Cyclists being summonsed […]
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Skimmed through to the end excerpt by Nate Berg: “Burning Man and the Metropolis” Participation is the organic result of citizens continually taking ownership of their community and their experiences within the community. “It changes their philosophy of how they want to be involved in their cities, how they want to be involved in their […]
Saturday Free Workshop, Feb 19, 2011! 1-5 pm Join us for brunch at Jimmy’s No. 43, 43 East 7th St. NY, NY 10003 (backroom) $5 beer special, $5 brunch special! (locally grown & made ingredients) RSVP Space is limited. – Go to www.mudballs.eventbrite.com – email: dd at moscollective dot net Indicate for which PARTS 1, […]