Wellness Spa
Overview Moonwise Herbs is a comprehensive herbal education, product shop, and workshop center focused on herbal healing, wildcrafting, nourishment, and bioregional herbalism, led by expert herbalist Linda Conroy. The overall atmosphere is nourishing, empowering, and deeply connected to nature, emphasizing personal transformation through plants, community gatherings, wild foods, and women's herbal traditions for resilience, flexibility, and adaptability. Features & Amenities Online shop with natural products including tinctures (e.g., Echinacea), infused oils, herbal creams, soaps, syrups, oxymels, vinegars, dry/fresh herbs, mushrooms, honey, beeswax, cultures, and books on herbalism and composting. Educational resources like Linda's Herbal Living blog with recipes (e.g., wild greens pesto, nourishing infusions, herbal condiments), nutrition charts, and posts on foraging, fermenting, and seasonal herbalism. Event calendar featuring in-person and virtual workshops on herbal gift making, cheese making, bubbling beverages, plant walks, and multi-day herbal trips (e.g., Rock Island Women’s Herbal Trip). Apprenticeship programs with hands-on wildcrafting, garden connections, and herbal ally development. Testimonials section highlighting empowerment, community support, and spiritual growth from participants. Newsletter subscription for recipes, event updates, and insider herbal tips. Services Workshops & Events: Herbal gift making, cheese making, fermenting, plant ID walks, wild edibles, permaculture basics, maple sugaring, cheese making series, women's wellness days, and custom group workshops (e.g., 4-Week Seasonal Herbal Series, Herbs for Winter Health). Apprenticeships: 8-Week Seasonal Weekly (spring/summer/fall), 8-Month Wild Food & Wild Medicine, One-Year Virtual Village Herbal Apprenticeship for Women. Consultations: Schedule herbal consultations with Linda. Custom Bookings: Linda available to lead workshops, speak, or teach topics like bioregional herbalism, foraging, and home cheese making. Online Courses: Enroll in herbal learning programs. Product Customization: Tinctures, salves, lotions, and more; contact for availability. Pricing Products: Echinacea Tincture $9.00 (1-4 oz options); books like Community-Scale Composting Systems $59.95, Your Baby's Microbiome $19.95, Healing Wise $17.95. Gift Cards: $25-$200 eGift options. Apprenticeships & Programs: Applications open (e.g., Financial Road Map course was $2,000 for 4 months; specific pricing via sign-up links). Workshops: Pricing not listed directly; sign up via calendar links (e.g., From the Garden: Herbal Gift Making at Olbrich Botanical Gardens). Note: Many events and products require registration; contact for custom quotes. Location & Hours Primary Base: Albion, WI, USA (Moonwise Herbs Homestead); events across Wisconsin including Madison (Olbrich Botanical Gardens, Willy Street Co-op), Edgerton (Silverwood Park), Plymouth (Community Ed & Rec), Rock Island. Virtual Options: Zoom-based apprenticeships and courses accessible worldwide. Operating Hours: Event-specific (e.g., Dec 6, 2025: 10 AM–4 PM; Dec 7, 2025: 1–5 PM or 6–9 PM); apprenticeships like Wednesdays 9 AM–5 PM or monthly weekends April–October. Full calendar at moonwiseherbs.com/calendar; no standard business hours listed. Notes What makes Moonwise Herbs special: Founded by Linda Conroy, a renowned herbalist, educator, permaculture designer, doula, and conference founder (Midwest Women’s Herbal Conference, Mycelium Mysteries), with a focus on women's herbal journeys, wild/local foods, bioregional sustainability, and holistic nourishment. Emphasizes hands-on wildcrafting, relationship with plants, and nutrient-dense wild edibles over commercial herbs; promotes fermentation, infusions, and ethical foraging. Unique programs like year-long virtual apprenticeships build deep herbal wisdom; strong community testimonials praise empowerment and surprises in personal/spiritual growth. Integrates permaculture, mycology, and traditional skills (e.g., grafting, beekeeping); shop supports local/wild harvesting for potency and relationship-based medicine making.
