What's up everyone? Welcome back to the podcast and welcome back to the final

episode with Karina of Sacred Elements and I think we saved one of the most

intriguing episodes for last because today we're talking

about Marimo Mossballs which sounds kind of like a Pokemon or sounds like

something that's from a toy store, but in fact it is a ball of moss that you can grow in water.

And Karina has done quite a bit with this.

She has quite a bit to say about this.

How to create living centerpieces with them,

how to care for them, how long can they live, what they are.

So I think what I'm gonna do is step back a little bit and kind of just let you go to town on this, Karina.

Okay, I will do that.

So, Marrymle Mossball, first and foremost, is not Moss at all. It's actually algae. So I first

started learning about them last year when I went in to teach. I teach in my son's one of my kids schools occasionally, kind of garden and environmental science.

And I learned about that because I was collecting moth on Mount Tabor and started studying moss and realized that there's all these different

amazing intriguing facts about like in moss and algae. So then I saw Mario moss balls and I got excited

because they're aesthetically so beautiful.

So I went and ordered my first set and then of course had to research all about them and I found some

pretty cool information that I taught the kids and I've been kind of highlighting a little bit here and there on my Instagram over the year that I'd love to share.

Let's see, so first of all, they are, you can find them in their natural habitat, which are our lakes in Iceland, Scotland and

one of the Japanese legends is basically that Marimo it comes from two lovers that were not allowed to be together.

And so with their hearts broken, they fell into the water and drown.

And Marimo represents their two broken hearts and they are now together as one so

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