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Ginger Janssen

Ginger Janssen is a mother, plant lover, homesteader, designer, bee guardian, and herbalist rooted on Basalt Mountain. For more than 30 years, she has tended food, flowers, medicine, springs, and soil - growing most of the herbs she works with and crafting hydrosols, teas, elixirs, and honey medicines from the living landscape. She and her family steward an off-grid hydro-solar homestead with chickens, bees, orchards, and a year-round greenhouse where tropical and medicinal plants thrive beside a wide apothecary of mountain herbs. As co-owner of Basalt Mountain Gardens, she consults, designs and co-creates therapeutic gardens and whole living systems, including the Peace Garden at True Nature Healing Arts in downtown Carbondale. She is also the visionary behind Seven Springs Conservancy, offering plant-centered workshops, tours, and community gatherings that inspire others to cultivate healing land-based systems.

Artemisia Mountain Portal: Homestead, Greenhouse & Gardens Tour & Mugwort Distillation: 6 hour Preconference, Adults, All Levels
Step through the 2026 Artemisia Portal by spending a full day immersed in Mugwort, steam, land, and ancestral craft. We travel to Basalt Mountain Homestead, Greenhouse and Gardens (35 minutes from 13 Moons - you are responsible for your transportation to/from this location and the gathering), Ginger’s homestead sanctuary, where Artemisia species grow among food forests, and medicinal beds.

You will:

• Tour homestead and tropical greenhouse, and regenerative garden systems

• Harvest mountain-grown Mugwort & Artemisia kin

• Distill a fresh hydrosol in a copper alembic still

• Learn energetic & meridian pathways with Annie (L.Ac.)

• Explore Artemisia’s role in dreamwork, and intuitive seeing

• Craft an Artemisia smudge bundle

• Drink Mugwort tea while opening the inner portal of the Wise Woman tradition

This pre-conference is rooted in hands-on practice, ancestral remembering, and deep connection to the land. Participants leave with a Mugwort hydrosol, smudge stick, and a lived sense of Artemisia as guide, ally, and threshold walker.

Accommodations are available at Basalt Mountain Gardens homestead: (Juniper Yurt, Aspen Yurt, Tiny House, and camping) for Wednesday the 29th and / or Thursday the 30th nights. Email basaltmtngardens@gmail.com for details and booking.

Red Earth Clay Anointing & the Spiral of Womanhood: 1.5 hour, Adults, All Levels
Enter the portal of womanhood through red clay, Mugwort, and the Wise Woman lineage. This hands-on class introduces the Red Earth Clay Anointing Temple, offering a guided ceremonial walk-through of the five womanhood sacred stages.

You will:

• Learn the plant allies of each feminine stage

• Anoint your face & body in a simple, powerful ritual and cleansing in the crystal river

• Receive guidance for using the Temple throughout the weekend

Expect laughter, a little wildness, a little reverence and the reminder that we are walking an eternal spiral.

The Temple will remain open as a self-guided sanctuary after this class.

Painted by the Earth: Red Earth Clay Art: 45 minutes, Girls Grove
A playful, hands-on experience exploring creative clay body art inspired by the Maiden stage of curiosity and new beginnings. Using red earth clay from Basalt Mountain and gentle plant allies - lemon balm, lavender, and rose - girls are invited into earth play, imagination, and joyful self-expression.