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Midwest Women's Herbal Mission Statement

Midwest Women's Herbal provides herbal education and opportunities for transformation. Immersed in the tradition of the village herbalist, grandmothers, mothers, daughters, sisters, and children gather in a co-created village. Through earth-centered healing and nourishment we ally with the plants that grow around us. From the ground up we connect to weave ourselves, our families, and our communities into the dynamic spiral of health.

Midwest Women's Herbal Vision Statement

We live in a world where the feminine is honored and respected; where women stand fully in their power, acknowledging their wisdom, skills and innate healing abilities.

It takes a village….Here are the talented, dedicated women who are already working behind the scenes to weave the container, holding the possibilities for your conference experience. Now we just need YOU! Anything is possible when you co-create women's spaces and learning opportunities with your sisters and friends. 

Linda | Core Team & Founder

Linda | Core Team & Founder

Linda Conroy, MSS, MLSP is a Bioregional Herbalist, Educator and Community Organizer. Inspired by the plants and the feminine, she is the founder of Moonwise Herbs, Midwest Women’s Herbal Conference, & Mycelium Mysteries. Linda has apprenticed with and studied with world-renowned herbalists and is a life long learner. Her passion is herbal nourishment through Wild food/Wild medicine, Community and Women’s Mysteries.

Markie | Designer & Coordinator

Markie | Designer & Coordinator

Markie is honored to be supporting MWH with graphic design, web design, and marketplace coordination! Markie feels at home in the plant world, and has been on an herbal learning journey since 2015. She loves discovering wisdom and magic in the world via travel & communing with plants, creating whimsical gardens, and running her marketing company focused on supporting local & women-owned businesses, Good Land Creative.

Grace Elizabeth | Coordinator

Grace Elizabeth | Coordinator

In Loving Memory of Grace Elizabeth Reinhart 2000-2024

Michelle | Coordinator

Michelle | Coordinator

Michelle is a Crone who moved to the Northwoods to be closer to her Allyuh and the “Big Lake.” She is an Andean Mesa carrier, a Shamanic Practitioner, and an energy healer. She works closely with her plant allies at her Healing Center in Hayward, where she grows many of her own plants to supplement her in-home apothecary. She is eager to join this team of amazing plant medicine carriers and celebrates the Divine Feminine energy created in the powerful community.

Shari | Programming Coordinator

Shari | Programming Coordinator

Shari grew up in Pennsylvania and moved to Chicago at the age of 23. After 18 years in the construction industry, she opened Peaceful Parlour. Shari first attended the Conference in its 2nd year along with her then 5 year old son. She was inspired to become a vendor, sponsor and was inducted as a Green Witch by Susun Weed. She apprenticed with Linda Conroy for 3 years, fell in love with botany and developed a desire to support women's spaces. She loves to wildcraft, hike and travel.

Carrie | Coordinator

Carrie | Coordinator

Carrie was born in Indiana and moved to Eastern Kentucky in 2002. Always loving nature and plants, it was just a matter of time before she started studying them. Becoming a member of the Kentucky Herbal Alliance forged relationships with other herbalists. She has worked on mushroom farms and taken some herbal classes to help her knowledge of nature. Living on 18 forested acres, she raises her food and medicine on her land. She loves to learn and teach.

Courtney | Coordinator

Courtney | Coordinator

Courtney is a mother, aspiring herbalist, gardener and nature lover. She has a long history of working with animals and on farms. Through this, she has found a loving connection to herbal medicine and herbal cultivation. She feels most alive when dancing, creating, and crafting. She is so excited to join the MWHC team and be a part of this wonderful community.

Karen | Programming Coordinator

Karen | Programming Coordinator

Karen calls Minnesota home --with brief forays in Arizona, Michigan and Peru. She is retired Geography professor She now spends her time supporting women with empowerment, shamanic healing, storytelling (Generations Storytelling), as a certified Forest Therapy Guide, as a Laughter Therapy facilitator, and herbalist. She is thrilled to be part of a dynamic women center organization that has an earth based focus connecting us with nature and each other!

Lisa | Coordinator

Lisa | Coordinator

Lisa is a lifelong resident of Wisconsin and a retired librarian. Since retiring, she has been following her passions which include gardening, traveling, researching, reading, and spending time with grandchildren. She spent many years cultivating a large garden and raising food for her family of five children. After becoming a Master Gardener in 2014, she has volunteered at many community gardens, including the Rotary Botanical Garden in Janesville and the Edgerton Hospital Healing Garden.

Brandi | Coordinator

Brandi | Coordinator

Brandi is a nonprofit administrator dedicated to helping those in service of community and the environment succeed in their missions. She has led or supported dozens of organizations in identifying, procuring, and managing financial and operational resources for maximum mission impact. She attended the Midwest Women’s Herbal Conference for the first time in 2024, and is proud to be a part of coordinating the 2025 conference.

Whin | Coordinator

Whin | Coordinator

I've had numerous and varied jobs throughout my working career from sales, teacher, wilderness instructor, cannery worker in Alaska, woodworker and nurse, just to name a few. But throughout my life, plants, gardening, being in the outdoors has been my sanctuary, my stabilizer, my nurturer. As I continue to explore and learn more about the living plant life around me, I'm in awe of their complexities and abundant purposes; from nutrition, crafting, spiritual and supporting the environment.

Andrea | Coordinator

Andrea | Coordinator

Andrea Novotney, M.Ed. tends the Great Turning Catholic Worker Farm with her husband and their 3 boys. She strives to build community through song, clear communication, and enthusiasm for life. She is always exploring new ways to weave together music, education, activism, health, scientific knowledge, and nourishment.

Veronica | Coordinator

Veronica | Coordinator

Veronica is a hobbyist herbalist from the western Chicago suburbs. There she tends to her child, loved ones and backyard garden. She utilizes plant guilds along with suburban permaculture to grow a food forest along with healing herbs to support her family's health and wellbeing. She is a new mom and is working on becoming a medicaid-certified doula.

Amanda | Coordinator

Amanda | Coordinator

In the outer world, Amanda hugs trees, forages sustainably, practices/teaches Morning Altars, and hosts retreats/rituals in the Wheel of the Year tradition. In inner landscapes, she shares Trauma Informed Resilience Focused Somatics, Aerial Yoga and Ayurvedic practices to weave together a Holistic Esthetics practice she lovingly shares as Sacred Soma Selfcare, tending to the impacts of unresolved trauma by returning to the resonance of the natural world.

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