Presenters
15th Annual Midwest Women's Herbal Conference
Honoring Deep Roots & Tending New Shoots
Featuring:
The Nature of Plants: A Community Conversation with
Linda Conroy and Pam Montgomery
and Keynote Addresses by:
Robin Rose Bennett and Jiling Lin
May 22-24, 2026 • Almond, WI
Featured Speaker:
Linda Conroy
Linda Conroy is a bioregional herbalist with over 30 years of experience as an educator, community organizer, event producer, and clinician. She founded Midwest Women’s Herbal, its related programs and events, and Moonwise Herbs. Her work draws on the tradition of the village herbalist, honoring women’s natural connection to the earth and their healing abilities. With a hands-on, experiential approach, she helps people build personal relationships with local plants and ecosystems. Believing the most effective and sustainable herbalism comes from what grows nearby, she also weaves mushrooms into her practice, focusing on their benefits for human health and ecological balance. Her blend of herbs and fungi highlights local availability, traditional wisdom, and practical use and is showcased at the annual Mycelium Mysteries Conference she created. At its heart, her work fosters deep ties to nature, supports the earth’s health, and builds resilient communities through women's empowerment, shared traditions and nourishment.
Featured Speaker:
Pam Montgomery
Pam Montgomery is an herbalist, author, international teacher and Earth elder who has passionately embraced her role as a spokesperson for the green beings and has been investigating plants and their intelligent spiritual nature for more than four decades. More recently she has been working with the plants to heal the wounds of separation from Nature in order to move into co-creative partnership with all Nature. She is the author of three books including Co-Creating with Nature; Healing the Wound of Separation and the highly acclaimed Plant Spirit Healing; A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness. She teaches internationally and virtually on plant initiations, spiritual ecology and co-creative partnership with Nature. She is the founder of the Organization of Nature Evolutionaries or ONE and was a founding board member of United Plant Savers.
Keynote Speaker:
Robin Rose Bennett
Robin Rose Bennett is a story-teller, writer, and herbalist, offering classes in Herbal Medicine and EarthSpirit Teachings since 1986 - at herb conferences, festivals, medical schools, and most joyously, outside with the plants. Robin Rose shares herbal medicine with gratitude for the loving generosity of the plants and the magic, mystery, and beauty of the web of life. She is the author of: Healing Magic - A Green Witch Guidebook to Conscious Living, The Gift of Healing Herbs - Plant Medicines and Home Remedies for a Vibrantly Healthy Life, The Young Green Witch’s Guide to Plant Magic - Rituals and Recipes from Nature, and A Green Witch's Pocket Book of Wisdom-Big Little Life Tips.
Keynote Speaker:
Jiling Lin
Jiling Lin is an acupuncturist, herbalist, and artist in Ventura, CA. Jiling provides integrative medicine and experiential education for thriving personal and ecological wellness through gentle acupuncture and herbs, accessible lifestyle medicine solutions, and empowering classes and retreats integrating nature, art, movement, and ritual. Tea Talks podcast host on Herbal Radio and writer for various publications, Jiling also loves surfing, backpacking, and gardening-- and is writing her first book about Five Elements Lifestyle Medicine! Visit Jiling at JilingLin.com and join her newsletter for seasonal beauty.
Conference Presenters
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