RED MOON HERBS and SE WISE WOMEN are sister organizations, embodying the Wise Woman Tradition in the Southeast. Red Moon Herbs handcrafts potent herbal products from fresh, local plants. RED MOON HERBS focuses on using fresh, local and abundant plants that are ecologically wildcrafted or sustainably grown. To ensure optimum potency, our herbs are lovingly handcrafted in small batches from fresh, local plants harvested at the peak of their potency by following the cycles of moon, season and weather. The Wise Woman Tradition is the world's oldest healing tradition. Its foundation rests on the principles of nourishment, which is simple, grounded, accessible, affordable, effective, ever-changing, compassionate and empowering.
02/01/2026
🌕❄️♌️ The fires of the goddess Brigid and Leo join today in this auspicious phenomenon. Did you know that February is the only month that occasionally doesn't have a full moon?
🧚♀️ Imbolc is a Celtic festival celebrated on February 1-2, marking the midpoint between the winter solstice and spring equinox and symbolizing purification, rebirth, and the returning light. Tied to the goddess Brigid—associated with fire, fertility, poetry, and prophecy—the holiday featured rituals such as crafting Brigid effigies and lighting fires. As Christianity spread, Brigid was later linked to St. Brigid, and many Imbolc traditions blended into her feast day on February 1. Today, Wiccans and neopagans celebrate Imbolc through nature‑focused rituals.
-Lesley Kennedy https://www.history.com/articles/february-month-history-facts
01/31/2026
Sometimes the foraging at can look like a nice day IN after a non-botanical harvest. There’s days where you have to put the bottles of extracts and the bags of herbs down to deep dive in the snow! It’s a gentle fall of white goodness in NC Appalachia right now, like powdered sugar through a fine sieve. The perfect day to make SNOW ❄️ CREAM. Take a big bowl of snow from a pristine accumulation, add some vanilla extract, milk, cream or nut beverage of your choice and sweetener and eat immediately in front of a fire if possible. Let us know what fun things you like to add to your snow cream! 🍭💕❄️⛄️
01/29/2026
To celebrate the turning of the year, staff birthdays, and master's degree graduations, Red Moon hosted a Crow Party. The idea is to bring sparkly trinkets to trade, lay them all out on an altar and take turns choosing an intriguing piece. Embracing the opportunity to embody curiosity and play, we dressed in our finest crow apparel and shared the stories behind our treasures. It's fun to observe what things "CAWED" out to each person in the spirit of playful crow.
Crows are known to gather useful things like stones, sticks, and food items to cache or use as tools, sometimes even leaving "gifts" like beads or brightly colored bits for humans they trust. Their treasure storage reflects intelligence for play, tools, or nesting and problem-solving. Crows do not forget a face and communicate very well with each other, other birds and even humans.
01/28/2026
❄🌲❄🌲❄Join Ethnobiologist Marc Williams on a plant walk during the most challenging time of the year to botanize. We will learn to distinguish more subtle characteristics to identify many plants, take note of early bloomers and engage in a dialogue about off season woody plant characteristics, ethnobotanical applications and resources for further study.
Ethnobiologist Marc Williams has taught hundreds of classes to thousands of people about plants, humans, other life forms and their interfaces. He has a M.A. in Appalachian Studies/Sustainable Development from Appalachian State University.
❤🥰❤🌿Celebrate love and awaken the senses on Feb 8, 10-1pm at Red Moon Herbs . Treat yourself to some fun handmade gifts for that special night IN. Why not get crafty for pampering yourself or someone dear to you during the season of devotion? You will learn tips and tricks with Debra Maslowski on how to make a bath bomb, solid lotion bar and a beeswax candle. Attendees get seriously hands-on making their own items to enjoy or gift. Special aphrodisiac snacks and tea will be part of the fun for tastings and sipping! All materials are included for $35. One scholarship is available and for those who purchase a ticket and want to bring a friend along, there's a special price break for a 2nd ticket. Feel free to email jeannie@redmoonherbs.com if you're buying 2 tickets or request the scholarship! ❤🥰❤🌿
01/24/2026
In collaboration with Twin Star Herbal Education & Community Apothecary, We are so very excited for the rebirth of this one-of-a-kind program, nearly ten years in the making. Join Community Herbalists, Foragers and Herbal Product Development Specialists Lupo Passero, Melissa Fryar and Jeannie Dunn as they share their combined decades of knowledge and experience harvesting local plants and making them into sustainable and efficacious herbal products to share with your community.
This course is designed for folks who want to learn how to design, create, formulate, label and market their own herbal products with herbs & mushrooms that have been foraged. Students will learn and experience ethical foraging techniques throughout Appalachia, practice proper plant and fungi identification and harvest, prepare herbs according to medicine making or drying needs, all while co-formulating special herbal products and building the home apothecary.
To learn more visit: https://www.twinstartribe.com/wildcrafted-apothecary
01/23/2026
Create your own Mullein torch! These have been used since AT LEAST the time of the Roman Empire, when they were dipped in wax and used as a source of light. They have been used throughout history for practical and spiritual purposes, such as warding off evil and cleansing spaces. They are still used today in some rituals around the pagan celebration of Samhain and we will use at Imbolc.
To make your own torch:
1. Collect dried Mullien stalks, in soem areas of the United States these seeds should not be scattered in the wild, they are invasice.
2. Dip by melting wax in a tall jar inside a water bath, cut your stalks down to about 1 foot and begin dipping them in the melted wax, you may also choose a narrow pan to roll the wands around. It may take several rounds of dipping and allowing them to dry to get the stalks fully coated. Another method is to pour the wax over the stalks.
3. While the stalks are still warm with wax, you can roll them in other dried powdered herbs such as rose, lavender, or cinnamon. The finer the herbs, the easier they will stick.
4. Enjoy your mullein torch outdoors.
Hey beloved community! If you or someone you know is looking to get hands on garden experience focused on herbs in a unique small-scale farm setting send us your application now.
We're asking 4 hours a week with availability Wednesday/Thursday in exchange for product credit, including our full selection of extracts, oils, dried herbs, vinegars and more. 2 Positions: One begins in February through June and one begins June through October.
Please reach out with any questions and we look forward to hearing from you!
01/15/2026
Enjoy some extra love from all of your favorite fungi now through the end of January.
Lion's Mane Extract and our Mushroom Elixir, which blends Reishi, Chaga Maitake and Turkey Tail with raw mountain honey, are both 20% off now.
Shop these plus more sale items here: https://redmoonherbs.com/collections/sale
01/10/2026
We’re so excited to participate in Asheville Herb Fest again! We have been going since it was called Herb Days at the farmers market. This just in from our friends over at . 🙌🏻🙌🏻FREE WORKSHOPS🙌🏻🙌🏻
Did you know that you can attend workshops all weekend at the Asheville Herb Fest for FREE?
🫶🏻We bring in many of our vendors who work with herbs for a living and other area teachers and makers to offer you a wide variety of topics to learn about!
✨✨What type of classes would you like to see at the festival? What have been your favorite classes in the past?
See you in April for the 2026 ASHEVILLE HERB FEST!
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Red Moon Herbs handcrafts potent herbal products from fresh, local plants that are consciously wildcrafted or organically cultivated here in Appalachia. To ensure optimum potency, our herbs are lovingly harvested by hand in small batches from plants at the peak of their strength by following the cycles of moon, season, and weather.
Started in 1994 by Corinna Wood and Jessica Godino, Red Moon Herbs has seen many changes over the past 20 years, including incredible growth, two apothecaries, and, most recently, stringent compliance with FDA regulations regarding herbal medicines. In 2012, the directorship was passed to from Corinna Wood to Jeannie Dunn. Throughout these changes, the focus and mission of the business has remained strong and true: to create safe and effective herbal products for the whole family from local, abundant plants.
As a professional herbalist and North Carolina native, Jeannie has been wildcrafting and making herbal extracts, oils, and salves for over a decade. She studied formally at both the NC School of Natural Healing and One World Healing Arts, but her herbal roots go much further back to the back-to-basics lifestyle infused in her as a child. Jeannie picked strawberries, canned vegetables, and pulled weeds from row crops with her parents and three siblings on their multi-generational family farm in Efland, NC. Today, knowing the powerful healing properties of those 'weeds' she used to pull, Jeannie happily uses them in her fermentations, herbal extracts, and fun, medicinal elixirs.
New Directions, Ancient Wisdom
As Jeannie has taken the directorship of Red Moon Herbs – overseeing both the art and the science of this earth-based, Wise Woman herbal business and apothecary – Corinna has stayed involved for support. The apothecary and production studio has moved from Black Mountain to a new location in Weaverville, yet many of the plants are still wildcrafted from their original locations at Earthaven Eco-Village, and the sustainable, earth-centric practices continue to expand.
Under Jeannie’s direction, Red Moon Herbs is expanding to serve more locations locally and regionally, and new faces have joined the family. Click here to learn more about our current staff.
The herbal family at Red Moon is dedicated to the mission of creating potent, high-quality, and local herbal products made the Wise Woman Way, and enthusiastically maintain the company’s 20-year integrity. We look forward to serving all of our current and new customers with the best in planet-friendly plant medicine for decades to come.
Red Moon Herbs and Southeast Wise Women are sister organizations, embodying the Wise Woman Tradition since 1994. SE Wise Women organizes the annual fall Southeast Wise Women’s Herbal Conference and spring Wise Woman Immersion. The Wise Woman Tradition is the world's oldest healing tradition. Its foundation rests on the principles of nourishment, which is simple, grounded, accessible, affordable, effective, ever-changing, compassionate and empowering.
