Rustic Roots Sanctuary

Rustic Roots Sanctuary We’re a resilient nonprofit that advocates for food justice and communal healing. Join us in creating a future where everyone’s basic needs are met!
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Rooted in Spanish Lake, MO, our local food hub works to support nutritionally underserved communities.

Sunshine, harvests, and another beautiful day working the land with our dream team🥬✨
05/27/2026

Sunshine, harvests, and another beautiful day working the land with our dream team🥬✨

Mark your calendars Farm Family!!!Saturday, June 13th marks the beginning of The Spanish Lake Farmers Market season and ...
05/26/2026

Mark your calendars Farm Family!!!

Saturday, June 13th marks the beginning of The Spanish Lake Farmers Market season and we’re doing this first one bigger than we ever have!

We’ll have farm fresh produce, honey from our farm’s apiary, grass fed eggs, free face painting for the kids, snow cones, farm fresh snacks, as well as other local growers, artists, and vendors here to welcome you all on the land for a beautiful day of local shopping!

You’ll also be able to shop our Herbal Pantry in Lavender Cottage for the FIRST TIME EVER!

So, if you’ve never been to the land or haven’t seen us since last season, JUNE 13th is a day you won’t want to miss!

See you there!🥬🍆🫛🥕🌶️🥒

Sacred Ground: A Women’s Restorative Retreat 🌿✨🔥Sister, when did you last choose yourself?Not for anyone else. Not becau...
05/23/2026

Sacred Ground: A Women’s Restorative Retreat 🌿✨🔥

Sister, when did you last choose yourself?

Not for anyone else. Not because you had to. But because your healing matters — because you matter.

Sacred Ground is calling you home.

This year’s retreat is a dedicated space for women to breathe, restore, and reconnect — to the earth, to each other, and to the deepest parts of themselves. We’re honored to welcome Rebeccah Bennett as our featured facilitator, bringing her powerful Liberated Living: Who Do You Think You Are? workshop to Sacred Ground.

Through curiosity, courage, and compassion, Rebeccah will guide us in reclaiming who we are at our core — exploring our thickness, the ways of being that feel real and stretch us beyond who the world told us we’re supposed to be. Together we’ll sit with the question “Who do I think I am?” and use self-reflection, poetry, and healing theater to bring our evolving truths to life.

You’ll nourish your body the way it deserves — with farm-to-table meals made from food grown right here on the land. There is something sacred about eating from the earth you’re standing on, food tended with intention and care, shared with women you’re growing alongside.

As the sun goes down, gather around the fire. Our fireside conversations will carry you into the evening — stories, laughter, truth-telling, and the kind of connection that only happens when women come together in the dark with nowhere else to be.

And when the night deepens, sleep under the open sky — wrapped in starlight and the quiet medicine of nature. Wake with the sun, grounded and restored.

This is more than a retreat. It’s a homecoming.

Come ready to be held, healed, nourished, and witnessed by a community of women who show up — for themselves and for you.

🌸 Limited scholarship spots are available for women who feel called to attend but need financial support. No woman who needs this space should be turned away. Reach out to us directly to learn more.

June 6th and 7th | Rustic Roots Sanctuary | https://bit.ly/3PyNM4o

This May, we had the privilege of hosting an incredible group of young men from the Christian Brothers College High Scho...
05/21/2026

This May, we had the privilege of hosting an incredible group of young men from the Christian Brothers College High School who collectively dedicated over 500+ hours of community service to the farm—while showing up with purpose, discipline, and heart. 🌱

From working the land to supporting daily farm operations, or packing Senior Bags, this team reminded us that when youth are given the opportunity, guidance, and responsibility to contribute to something greater than themselves, they rise to the occasion EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. We even have 2 of them wanting to join the team for the summer!

It’s imperative that we equip the next generation with the tools to not only support themselves, but also the communities they’re a part of. Teaching stewardship, teamwork, sustainability, leadership, and service creates young adults who understand the value of hard work and collective care. These experiences plant seeds far beyond the farm — they shape character, confidence, and community-minded leaders for the future.

We are deeply grateful for their time, energy, respect of the land, and willingness to serve. The future is bright with young people like this leading the way. 💚

World Meditation Day.
05/21/2026

World Meditation Day.

🌱 Spanish Lake, they're coming to our neighborhood — and you need to be there.St. Louis County is hosting an Ice Cream S...
05/18/2026

🌱 Spanish Lake, they're coming to our neighborhood — and you need to be there.

St. Louis County is hosting an Ice Cream Social this Thursday, May 21st from 4–7 PM at Celebrity Dining
(12117 Bellefontaine Rd, St. Louis, MO 63138) — and it's about more than ice cream.

Development plans for Spanish Lake are already in motion. WildCare Park is set to open in 2027. Economic development reports are being written. Stakeholder meetings are happening — right now — and too many of those seats belong to outside interests, not the people who actually live here.

This is your moment to show up and let the county know: WE are the stakeholders. Our voices, our history, our land.

Come out Thursday. Bring a neighbor. Bring your questions. Bring your concerns.

📍 Celebrity Dining —
12117 Bellefontaine Rd, St. Louis, MO 63138
📅 Thursday, May 21st
🕓 4–7 PM
🍦 Free ice cream. Real community. Real stakes.

Don't let someone else tell the story of Spanish Lake. Come write it yourself.

Bring your family. Bring your neighbors. Bring your questions and your opinions about what YOU want for Spanish Lake — affordable housing, local HEALTHY food access, green space, jobs that serve the people who already live here.

If we don't show up, someone else will shape our future for us.

Share this post. Tag your neighbors. See you Thursday.

If you can't get there, type your comments below and we will make sure St Louis County hears your voice.

Learn more: www.spanishlake2050.com
Contact the planner: Joel Hensley | [email protected] | 314-615-7260

This is a big win for all of us in MO! Thanks to all who submitted online testimony, submitted letters to the editor or...
05/16/2026

This is a big win for all of us in MO! Thanks to all who submitted online testimony, submitted letters to the editor or called your representatives! We all made this happen. Extra special thanks to Springfield Community Gardens and all the organizations that organized, went to the capitol and advocated for this in person.

05/15/2026

Tickets for our annual women’s retreat are now live!

Sacred Ground, a restorative nature retreat, was curated for women of color to release, renew, and heal amongst those on a similar journey.

Whether you’re seeking community, inspiration, or a moment of peace in nature, the land is waiting to embrace you—waiting to transmute your worries.

Every ticket includes:

✨Access To All Workshops and Activities
( Including A Liberation Circle Hosted By Rebeccah Bennett, Founder & Root Teacher at )

✨2 Nourishing Farm to Table Meals Prepared By Our In-House Chef, Freddie

✨Fireside Chats Guided By a Licensed Therapist (who’s also a Black Woman)

✨Reiki & Breathwork Sessions Immersed In Nature

✨A Beautiful Night Camping Under The Stars In A Natural Setting

Join us for our first and ONLY overnight retreat here on the land by visiting the link in our bio!

To all the mothers, nurturers, and caregivers who spent this past weekend pouring love into those around them—we honor y...
05/11/2026

To all the mothers, nurturers, and caregivers who spent this past weekend pouring love into those around them—we honor you💐✨

After the planning, coordinating, cooking, hosting, gifting, comforting, cleaning, and showing up…we’re dedicating this Saturday to YOU!

Join us for a deeply restorative Sound Healing Session designed to help you decompress, regulate your nervous system, and refill your cup after the energy poured into Mother’s Day weekend.

Our sessions have evolved, now including the use of quartz sound bowls, an ocean drum, tongue drum, and tuning forks—channeling a multitude of vibrational frequencies that support energetic restoration. Allow yourself space to soften, breathe, release tension, and reconnect with your body. You deserve peaceful healing.

These monthly sessions fill up fast. Secure your spot TODAY at the 🔗 in our bio!

It’s Give STL Day farm family!Today isn’t just another day on the calendar — it’s a chance to directly invest in food so...
05/07/2026

It’s Give STL Day farm family!

Today isn’t just another day on the calendar — it’s a chance to directly invest in food sovereignty, community healing, sustainable stewardship, and the future of our youth. 🌱

This GIVE STL DAY, your donation helps us:
🌿 Feed seniors and families with fresh produce
🌳 Expand our tree planting and land stewardship efforts
🧑🏾‍🌾 Teach the next generation sustainable agriculture and food sovereignty
🤝 Create accessible community programming rooted in healing, education, and intention

No amount is too small. A single donation today creates a ripple effect that will feed, teach, and uplift people for years to come.

If Rustic Roots Sanctuary has ever inspired you, educated you, nourished you, or given you hope for what community can look like — today is the day to pour back into that vision.

Donate or claim a tree TODAY at the link in our bio and help us continue growing toward a well sustained food ecosystem in North County!

Let’s make this Gives Day the BEST one yet💜

Address

11735 Eckert Lane
St. Louis, MO
63138

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 3pm
Tuesday 9am - 3pm
Wednesday 9am - 3pm
Thursday 9am - 3pm
Friday 9am - 3pm
Saturday 9am - 12pm

Telephone

+18587170070

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