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, l
ocal 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.
08/08/2025
Happy International Cat Day! Our working cats love the smell of tulsi in the sun (Ocimum sanctum/africanum) and lie on the mulch nearby these clovey-mint aromatic plants. Thanks Sister Kitten and Asheville Humane Society for the TNR help on these and other cats who have been here at the Church of the Holy Basil and have since been adopted out to other homes of staff and helpers. These two are here to stay as they were both quite feral, especially our fellow, Ralph (our white and orange marshmallow) who now lets us pet him for a few seconds. Perhaps it's the tulsi nearby that sooths his nerves. Our boy Ginger is definitely all about the attention and can give a clawed slap if you don't watch carefully. Maybe it's that LEO fire July 22 - Aug 22 that makes International Cat Day extra special and feisty. From our wild mousers to you, stay cool and chill with a cup of Tulsi tea and perhaps turn a card and reflect when you're not on the hunt! https://redmoonherbs.com/products/holy-basil?_pos=2&_sid=8e9f3adc9&_ss=r
08/08/2025
We know you all have been patiently waiting for more of this sunshine in a bottle. If the summer sun is leaving your skin raw and your muscles sore and achy, this is just the thing!
08/05/2025
🌾🌾🌾Harvested at their peak, we now have a fresh batch of our best-selling extract of Milky Oats!
If the heat of summer is leaving you feeling frazzled, Milky Oats is here to soothe. It can sometimes be hard to re-center ourselves when we're leading such busy lives.
Luckily, we can lean on our relationships to these lovely plants to nourish the nerves. 🌾🌾🌾
Red Moon Herbs is honored to be a sponsor at the N.C. Herb Association's Wild Herb Weekend, July 25-27th at Valle Crucis Conference Center.
Jeannie Dunn, director of Red Moon, will be teaching a hands-on class to build, or add to, your first aid kit for home and adventures.
Whether you grow herbs for home use, herbs for healing, or want to start a commercial herb operation, you will find many interesting sessions, hands-on workshops and plant walks to participate in!
The N.C. Herb Association will host the annual Wild Herb Weekend July 25-27 here at the VCCC. If you haven't already registered, the link is in the comments! Hurry - space is running out!
07/24/2025
07/22/2025
🏵🌿🏵🌿 Join us this Wednesday evening July 23rd from 4-7pm for another community event with Appalachian Herb Collective and Twin Star Herbal Education & Community Apothecary. We host these events to serve those who might not otherwise have access to herbal care and we will be sharing with various herbal hubs in our area.
🏵🌿🏵🌿 Our garden at The Church of the Holy Basil at Red Moon Herbs is popping this season, so we want to share some of the more prolific herbs and make herbal vinegars for you to take home with you!
🏵🌿🏵🌿 Please come one down and help make items for the community, to be pressed and strained in the near future for oxymels (herbs vinegar + honey). Enjoy some free product giveaways- including extracts and teas. Bring any extra well-labeled herbal products you have to exchange (not required)
Stick around to help us pour for extra distribution. Snacks and herbal tea provided.
We look forward to seeing your smiles!🏵🌿🏵🌿
07/18/2025
Fall is a great time to plant your perennial plants, shrubs and trees ! We hope you’ll join us for this fun event with education, food trucks, coffee, music, handmade goods and plants. Our collaboration with Sister of Mother Earth and WNC Farmers Market and wonderful growers and makers from our region will be a great way to support your community! We do really appreciate your rally around small Appalachian businesses as you get to know some new plant friends for your garden or container. We’re still looking for a few more vendors to sell their plants and handmade products. Check in with jeannie@redmoonherbs.com if you’d like to vend!
07/15/2025
🏵☀🌸FAVORITE NATIVE PLANT? DO TELL! We love so many, but one fav is our beloved Solomon's Seal (Polygonatum spp.) To make room for Solomon and many other beautiful natives, we remove invasive plants such as Rosa multiflora, mimosa tree (Albizia julibrissin) and Japanese stiltgrass (Microstegium vimineum). We use mulitflora and other rose hips in our Carolina Bitters. When someone is taking down a mimosa tree we harvest for our Mimosa Elixir. There's many ways you can help our native plants thrive by planting new stock, spreading seeds or pulling up non-native invasives so our natives have room to grow. We're so excited to learn more about native plants this week at the Cullowhee Native Plant Conference on the campus of WCU! Stop by the Red Moon Herbs table for a FREE I EAT WEEDS Sticker and sample our native and non-native herbal testers.🏵☀🌸 Search for commuter tickets tinyurl.com/nativeplantconference
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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.
