Red Earth
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The 9th Annual Red Earth: The Mountain West Women's Herbal Gathering
August 1st - 3rd, 2025 at 13 Moons Ranch in Carbondale, Colorado
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Food and Nourishment
By Jenna Barnes, Parakalo Provisions
The joyful hummingbird sipping nectar.
The purposeful bees rolling in pleasure in the pollen.
The connection of the aspen trees rooting to gather richness from the soil to rise stronger.
These are a few of the inspirations for the edible delights we will create and serve this year for the gathering of kindred spirits. Salads that are bursting with prana, having just been pulled from earth, still tasting of summer sunshine. Deeply nourishing sipping broths in the morning to shake off the cool night and awaken to a new day. Deeply nourishing soups that are like mama's around the world make to show their love. Plus some sweet + decadent surprises to balance out the meal. Rainbows of supportive herbs will dance with all of the dishes. And flowers! Always edible flowers.
We are SO excited to break bread with you and nourish this event. In these times, food as a ritual is needed. We invite you to join us: taste this land and feel the love.
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Jenna will also be preparing amazing teas and herbal infusions! Bring your 2025 Red Earth mug and enjoy our infusions and teas of the day!
Jenna Barnes
Jenna Barnes is a culinary:creatrix, holistic chef, and herbalist using all things wild and delicious. She gathers ingredients from the woods, gardens and farms to weave those with medicinal plants + flavors from her travels. Using the cosmos as her muse, she intuitively crafts vibrant food + libations that deeply nourish the body and uplift the spirit. She dances in the kitchen and sings into the soup-pot.
Jenna offers retreat chef services, custom herbal tea blends, ceremonial cakes and monthly plant devotionals.
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Tea and Infusion
Enliven your senses and nourish your body and soul with herbal infusions, and herb-enhanced true teas throughout the gathering. Bring your favorite Red Earth mug and enjoy our teas of the day!
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Throughout the day, we will provide you with delightful beverages to keep your body nourished, centered, and nurtured. Each morning we will have warm herbal infusions, tisanes, and true tea. Throughout the day these infusions, tisanes, and teas will be replenished for your enjoyment and nourishment. A cold option will be included at all times to help you beat the heat.
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Our herbal tisanes are formulated specifically for Red Earth each year, and are blended with our theme in mind. The teas are mindfully formulated to be safe and gentle for women in all stages of life. This year these will be handmade with love and intention by Amma, of Rooted in Love, and kept stocked throughout the day and evening by our amazing Tea Lounge helpers.
Amma Terry
Mother of the jungle, ocean, and land. Fully embodied, Amma moved to the Costa Rican jungle in 2020 after driving her van from Jackson Hole, Wyoming to the southern tip of the Osa Peninsula. Saying no to fear, Amma is in now the process of building her Ayurvedic wellness and healing center - Rooted in Love - on this beloved land. A woman wise beyond her years, Amma meets her fire’s edge with softness and compassion. A true go-getter that will inspire even the gentlest of souls to follow their dreams and passions. Living from a space of wonder and awe, Amma instills beauty into everything she does and invites others to do the same. By sheer presence, we lift each other up.
Amma is a nature lover with a passion to help others to discover a more synchronistic and aligned way of living. She believes in a multifaceted approach to wellness in order to restore and maintain harmony within and without the body. Seeing the body as a whole system that functions in harmony with nature, Amma has been seeking holistic balance in herself and others since she began in the wellness industry in 2009. Originally a fitness instructor and personal trainer, Amma has shifted to share her knowledge through the lens of Ayurveda/ herbalism as a guide for others to find their own path to their own inner bliss.
