The Beneficial Mud Ball Beneficial Ball!

A Bioremediation Participation Celebration!!

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Put on your ball gowns and get dirty at the garden! Dance a jig while doing fun stuff to help clean our surroundings in a big way!

The Beneficial Mud Ball Beneficial Mud Ball is a participatory event to bioremediate our local environment while enjoying the day.

A year later and even more dancing and bioremediation to be done!

Let’s start making clean water, air and soil as we dance about the garden.

We will have Local beer from Jimmy’s No 43.

Raw oysters (while supply lasts) (help-out by ordering a dozen contact (http://moscollective.net/WP/contact) us :)

It is a Pot Luck. Bring food to share!

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We will be making a lot of EM-1 Mud balls, Love Bomb Seed Bombs and saving our oyster shells and trenching food waste. All this in a beautiful bountiful garden that is itself a successful bioremediation project. We’ll meet some biochemists and engineers and artists who are doing work in which we can contribute.

At 5 pm

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Rand Weeks, electrician/engineer, will be replaced by Paul because he has to work on the oyster project this Sunday. He is part of a documentary that was screened at the Museum of Natural History called “Shell shocked”. SO the talk about an oyster project using solar power to restore oyster population will be spoken about by Paul. He also knows a lot .. it's his idea we throw our shells into the river.

Marisa Dedominicis, of EarthMatter, will have Sandy soil text samples and explain way so fixing that soil. We will learn about remediation plans for the community gardens that have been flooded.

At 6:30

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EXTRAS!

FRIDAY 5/24! 4-9 pm kids & adults. An Outfitting Bonanza Backyard Potluck at Kappo Kappino Studio & garden Lower East Side. Sign up to RSVP for address. 3rd st /C Bring 3 hula hoops and we will help you make a mudball gown, mini bike-tire-wire hoop-skirt. Great for biking. Seed Balls for the Sunday ride. Draw up signs. Make food waste.

1-3 pm: Join The Seed Ball slinging Bike Ride: Tompkins Square meet: 1:30 pm at gaia tree. w/Times-Up (http://Times-Up.org/)!

3:30 pm: join discussion on "self bioremediation" (cleansing) with East Village Wellness Circle in a quieter garden spot. Then help them trench bokashi and plant new herbs in the medicinal plot.

7 pm: STAY for post-party Treehoue Concert by El Jardin gardeners and Kelly Fragale. A Toast to anti-fracking with a glowing Fractail cocktails with toast and words by JK Canepa.

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Ways to Contribute:

• contribute a dozen OYSTERS

• bring yummy food

• A donation to MoS of $10 always welcome

• For MudBall testing with Brooklyn College Donations. Go to: http://IOBY.org/Beneficial-Mud-Balls-Gowanus

• A $20 donation at the event gets you a pristine archive of 2013 Reserve NYC Tap Water with a one of a kind hand drawn label by artist Dustin Grella.

• If you or your group wants to be a supporter? Help us with your energy or money Contact MoS (http://moscollective.net/WP/contact).

PARTICIPANTS: Gaia Institute NY, Shig/Good Microbes, 12th Street Bokashi Model, Jimmy’s No 43, , Love Bomb Seed Bombs, Times-Up!, Earth Matter, Cargo Bike Collective, BobWhite's Restaurant, Green Map System, Recycle and Pray, Blue Moon Fish, Lisa Shaub Millinery, Dustin Grella NYC Tap Water, Naoko’s Vegan Baking, Green Haiti, Kelly Fragale Music, East Village Wellness Circle, El Jardin Del Paraiso Gardeners, Stephanie Huffaker's Green Cleaning.

SUPPORTERS: LUNGS: Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens, NYC Community Garden Coalition, Brooklyn College Sustainability Today & Tomorrow, YANA Rockaway building Renovation Project, MORUS: Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space, Curtis B. Wayne on Heritage Radio, Vokashi, The Center for Bioregional Living, NY Permaculture Exchange, Green Phoenix Permaculture, NY Permaculture Meet up, Community Carting & Composting, 6th St Community Center, Earthdance Creative Living, 596 Acres, OWS Sustainability, Peace Museum NY, Ecophilia, Human Impacts Institue, and Figment Project.

contact (http://moscollective.net/WP/contact) us to participate or to stand behind The Beneficial Mudball Beneficial Ball!

More Details

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2. help us Eat raw oysters to save the shells.

3. Help ferment our food waste for soil fertilizer to grow more food

4. Join the Dance procession to the East River. Help toss yourempty oyster shells to encourage the oyster repopulation.

5. Help Make seed balls for the coast and the new potential gardens.

6. Help us use effective microbes to nourish and clean everything

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8. Green Map System: will have some maps out showing flooding and bioremediation projects and community gardens and target areas for new projects.

9. We will present a toast with “the fracktail”! A flaming after dark aperitif for those who want to stay and linger in the balmy garden.

Photos from Last year (http://moscollective.net/WP/archives/4635)

FRIDAY 5/24! Outfitting bonanza and seed bomb making party.

4p-9p kids & adults RSVP! in a message to event host.

With "Kappo Kappino", Rolando will explain his rag pickers factory in India where ladies are learning to make beautiful added value products from trash and selling them!

We will help you make:

• beneficial mud ball gowns,

• decorate umbrellas for the second line dance!

• paper or natural hats that have kale seeds in them to plant after use.

• umbrella dresses

• bouncy bike hoop mini skirts and tube tops

Bring 3 hula hoops, two 4 yr of light long pieces of fabric for your mud ball gown Or go pick one up at a flea market.

costume options:

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the umbrella dress

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paper hats

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bicycle parts: tub top and mini tire-wire skirt

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hula hoop mud ball gowns

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long feedbag skirt and mud tux