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As we come together, we aim to build a bridge towards future health and wellness through the power of herbal education.

Welcome to the Montana Herbal Festival, an annual gathering in Western Montana, dedicated to the exchange of herbal knowledge, fostering connections with native plant medicines, and promoting respectful stewardship of our environment. Welcome to the Montana Herbal Festival, a gathering in Missoula, MT, dedicated to the exchange of herbal knowledge, fostering connections with native plant medicines, and promoting respectful stewardship of our environment.

06/01/2026

🌿✨ GIVEAWAY TIME! ✨🌿

We’re thrilled to partner with our baddie neighbors, the Old Salt Festival for an EPIC GIVEAWAY that celebrates community, herbal traditions, and regenerative agriculture! 🎉

Here’s how to enter:
1️⃣ Follow both the and pages.
2️⃣ Like this post.
3️⃣ Buy a ticket for the Montana Herbal Festival (link in bio). *If you already have your ticket, AMAZING, that counts!
4️⃣ Comment below with your favorite thing about Montana—whether it’s our public lands, mountains, rivers, wildlife, farms, or something beautifully unusual!

🎁 Prize: A free weekend pass to the Old Salt Festival happening the weekend before Herb Fest!

📅 Giveaway Details:
When: Giveaway runs until June 7, 2026.
Winner Announcement: June 8, 2026 (we’ll DM the winner!).
Eligibility: Open to all! Must be 18+ to enter.

💚 Why Montana Herbal Festival is excited to be involved:
We’re beyond honored to join forces with the Old Salt Festival to highlight the healing power of plants and the vibrant community that makes Montana so special. This collaboration is a celebration of regenerative agriculture, herbal wisdom, and the connections that bring us together. Land is kin, always.

🌄 About the Old Salt Festival:
The Old Salt Festival is a three-day gathering happening June 19–21 at Mannix Family Ranch in Helmville, Montana. It brings together farmers, ranchers, food producers, and people who care deeply about regenerative agriculture and the future of food in the West, alongside incredible music, food, and community.

Grab your tickets at oldsaltfestival.com or better yet, win one here! Don’t forget to share this post with your pals! Happy festival month! ☀️🎶🌱

05/27/2026

🤩 Not to miss at this year’s festival! Walk with Knowledge Keepers, Jenny and Darcy as they lead us in a Walking Through the Seasons: Land-Based Plant Medicine and Ancestral Healing! Class description so juicy it’s too long for Instagram captions so make sure to read all those slides!

Darcy and Jenny Fisher are Knowledge Keepers, formulators, authors, and land-based educators based in the East Kootenay region of British Columbia and Montana. Their work is rooted in the traditional homelands of many nations, a region that today is home to many beautiful and diverse walks of life.

Together they founded Keepers of the Seasons LLC and Six Twenty Skincare, a decade-long practice built on the relationship between people, plants, and the land that feeds them both.

They spend their seasons harvesting, formulating, and teaching plant medicine the way it has always been taught: outside, hands in it, paying attention. Darcy and Jenny are co-authors of Walking Through the Seasons, a living archive of plant medicine and ancestral ecological knowledge spanning over 64 plant profiles and the full cycle of the year.

They believe the land is the first teacher, the nervous system already knows how to come home to it, and that good medicine starts with showing up and paying attention.

The land has always been the first teacher. Before books, before classrooms, before curricula, there were seasons, plants, and the people who knew how to listen to both. Every human being alive descends from ancestors who understood plant medicine, who read the land, who made healing from what grew around them. That knowledge did not vanish. It was buried. This class is about finding your way back to it, wherever you come from. 🧎‍♀️

⏱️ Tomorrow starts the one month countdown! Do you have your tickets yet?! 👀

05/25/2026

When getting to know your new home, it helps to get to know your neighbors. We are so grateful for the Blackfoot Challenge crew, working hard to keep the Blackfoot River region a place we all can find wild peace. 🏞️🦦

🙏 With a mission to coordinate efforts to conserve and enhance the natural resources and the rural way of life in the Blackfoot watershed for present and future generations, the Blackfoot Challenge brings people together through respectful conversations and community-driven priorities around sustainable resource stewardship. The Challenge trust-building process has generated grassroots solutions embedded in public and private partnerships.

Noteworthy conservation successes include: more than 1.3 million acres of land permanently protected from development, creation of a 5,600-acre community-owned and managed forest, restoration of native trout habitat, a drought response plan to maintain in-stream flows in the Blackfoot River, conservation of grizzly bear and wolf populations through conflict reduction, restoration of native trumpeter swans, and improvements to native grasslands, forests, and soil health across hundreds of working ranches.

To learn more about the Blackfoot Challenge, visit www.blackfootchallenge.org.

With gratitude,
The Montana Herbal Festival Team 🥰

05/21/2026

🌈 Orion really does shine after a good storm! We just spent the day sauntering around plant mapping yesterday and you wanna be here y’all! This little slice of paradise is lush and alive and waiting to teach us. 🥰

May 22nd is the last day to get discounted tickets so hurry on over to our website at mtherbalfest.org and pick yours up today! Let’s bring in summer right. 🤩🌱

05/20/2026

🏕️🔥 Did you know that you have the option to camp at this year’s festival?! Um, can anybody say wood-fired hot tub and sauna?! Yahoo! 🧖‍♀️🫠 P.S. Just a few more days to get those discounted tickets… 🎟️ 💨

🫶 Our venue host has generously offered to open the land to camping on Saturday night for festival attendees. If you would like to continue the festivities with us and connect around the campfire, we welcome you to do so.

Camping Guidelines:

💪 Be self-sufficient.
🗑️ Leave no trace.
📍 Camp in designated camping areas only.
🚙 Drive on designated routes only. (No driving near riverbank!)
⏰ Depart by 11am on Sunday. (If you want to stick around and help us clean up, we will welcome the help, but please be packed up and ready to go before helping out.)
🚛 No trailers. (Cab-overs are allowed.)
🔥 No personal fires. (We will have a communal fire going)
🐕 No dogs allowed. (This rule also applies to the rest of the festival.)

We so appreciate the extended opportunity to relax and connect with each other around the fire after dinner. Thank you to for your generosity!

We look forward to gathering with you all very soon. 🌱💕

05/19/2026

Smell is the strongest sense, and Part one is a foraging walk where we will be respectfully harvesting and identifying local plants to make a signature ‘taste of place’ hydrosol. Part two is learning how to make hydrosol with small copper still, preparing all out material, and making the alchemy happen! While we chop, we will be discussing the different plants we are working with and different medicines they hold. BY then end you will have partaken in all the steps to create a unique blend that you’ll get to enjoy time and again as a reminder of your favorite last best place!

Cathryn Raan and Sydney Morical of Wild Wanders are herbalists and longtime foragers of wild food and medicine that have been sharing their passion for plants and fungi with the community for over six years. They offer private excursions and land consultations as well as host a wide range of community events teaching foraging, plant connection, makery classes, and more. They also provide foraging services for restaurants and events, and wild foraged products for purchase, including an annual CSA (Community Supported Apothecary) subscription.

05/17/2026

You’re invited to our Plant Mapping & Sign Making Party this Wednesday!

Free event with MHF Board at ORION FARMSTEAD!
We will be gathering together to walk the 2026 MT Herbal Festival venue and map plants growing on the land & we will be making signs for the upcoming festival!

This is a great opportunity to walk the land with knowledgeable herbalists!

May 20th from 10am-3pm

Orion Farmstead
40740 MT Hwy 200,
Ovando, MT 59854

Please RSVP through link in our bio/ comments on Facebook!

05/14/2026

Returning to the WHY of what motivates and inspires us to work with the plants as food and medicine.

Do you like learning about the uses of herbs, how to identify plants in the field, make plant medicine, and keep your family and community healthy? Did herbs help you heal from an illness that other healing modalities were unable to remedy? Do you love to teach, and spread the plant love? Did a plant speak to you and open your lens to being a part of nature, and not separate?

In this class, we will go out into the field and physically meet the plants who co-inhabit the Orion Farmstead, through seeing, tasting, touching and sensing. We will learn about some of their uses and practical applications, discussed earlier in the
course.

As we walk among the plants we will transition and transform into the energetic aspects of plant medicine by partaking in a plant meditation and having the opportunity to be a voice for the plants and then share their offerings, as we regroup and integrate our experience.

Jennephyr is a Community Herbalist, residing in Sun River MT, as a servant and witness of the land that she is lucky to be able to co-exist with. Her education began over 30 years ago, as she began learning about medicinal plants that were identified in the city streets and nature areas of the Netherlands. Jennephyr is a self motivated learner, and is largely self-taught, as well as having studied with The Wild Rose College of Natural Healing, in Calgary; and also as an apprentice to Rosemary Gladstar in Vermont.

Jennephyr was co-owner of The Root and The Leaf, an herb store, in Great Falls, MT with Beatrix Jenness, back in the day. She is also the founder, and instructor, of EHSHER- Earth Heart Spirit-Herbal Educational Resources LLC, and taught herb courses through the adult education programs in her community and privately for many years. Jennephyr was an active member of The Montana Herb Gathering (MHG) for ten years, and president of the organization for two of those years. Jennephyr has also co-taught Herb classes at the Glacier Institute with Heather Nack-Culbreth.

We are honored to have you at the 2026 Montana Herbal Festival! 🫶

Address

40740 MT HIGHWAY 200
Ovando, MT
59854-9717

Website

https://mtherbalfest.org/

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