Red Earth
The 10th Annual Red Earth: The Mountain West Women's Herbal Gathering July 31st - August 2nd, 2026* at 13 Moons Ranch in Carbondale, CO
EagleSong Gardener
EagleSong Gardener dances her mischief in the hedge, that luminous place between wild and tended. A lifelong gardener, she has designed, managed and tended high visibility kitchen gardens and farms, commercial gardens, herb gardens & nurseries. She has trained in Healing & Therapeutic garden design and received a PDC in Permaculture Design in Hawaii in October 2001. EagleSong is known for her wit and kitchen table wisdom and her incessant need to go outside and play! Today, she enjoys teaching herbs from the ground up and engaging woman spirit wherever she is called. You can find her at eaglesong-gardener.com
Coming Home: A Ritual Celebration: 6 hour Pre-Conference Workshop, Adults, All Levels
Our Earth is calling maiden, mother & crone to gather, to ground, to enliven and celebrate our connection with her, ourselves and one another. Enter the doorway to the mother’s heart, receive her powerful energies that align us with our dreams and potential. Our day will be filled with reflection, ceremony and ritual with the earth. The day consists of building the ritual grounds for an imminent birth. Yours! You will be born of earth and will return to a sisterhood that recognizes and awaits your gifts.
Light Root: A Bridge Over the Abyss?: 1.5 hour, Adults, All Levels
What plant connects Rudolf Steiner, permaculture, and menopause?
Dioscorea spp—Steiner called wild yam Light Root, a plant he believed could nourish both the physical and etheric bodies and help humanity move through times of metamorphosis. Times such as these!
My intention isn’t to offer fixed answers but to open a conversation grounded in my long relationship with this global genus. Dioscorea has supported food security across cultures—what mother doesn’t understand the instinct to feed and sustain life?
Dioscorea spp. has also been used by women during menopause in many cultures. What can we learn from these nourishing traditions? Menopause, though a universal biological milestone in women, remains widely misunderstood and underserved.
By 2030, more than 1.2 billion women will be in menopause or post-menopause. Instead of accepting the narrative of decline, we can reclaim this phase as a source of power and renewal. As the Chinese say, a second spring for ourselves...for the earth.
Make your pause your medicine.
Could Light Root become an herbal ally on your journey?
Salt Works: You Gotta Love It!: 1.5 hour, Adults, All Levels
Table salt, sea salt, black salt, pink salt! Let's explore salt in all her guises and ancient history. Salt, essential for human survival, used as currency ("salary"), created trade routes around the world and even built cities! How did such a profound mineral become such an evil character? We'll explore salt's heritage as we grind up some tasty herbal salts for the kitchen, make a salt scrub and an herbal bath for a down home spa day! Inside and out, salt is an ally for health!
Plant Detectives! A Scavenger Hunt!: 30 minutes, Kids
Grab a basket and let's go on an herbal treasure hunt! We'll look for sweet scents, tasty morsels, colorful flowers, healing herbs. And, we'll sing songs, tell stories and maybe even find a wee bit o' magic on our way!
Wise Woman Panel: 1 hour
Join our amazing Wise Women teachers (Brigitte Mars, EagleSong Gardener, Ellen Evert Hopman, and Mary Lou Singleton) as they answer and discuss questions from the audience. There will be a box at Registration/the Info Booth for those women who would prefer the Red Earth team to ask their questions for them.