Upcoming Programs & Events:
Honey Medicine Kits Summer Camp (Weeks 1 & 2)
Week 1: June 23rd-27th
Week 2: June 30th-July 3rd
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Flower Medicine Kits & Moon Plants Summer Camp (Weeks 1 & 2)
Week 1: July 14th-18th
Week 2: July 28th-Aug 1st
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Root Medicine Kits & Wild Dyes Summer Camps (Weeks 1 & 2)
Week 1: August 11th-15th
Week 2: August 18th-22nd
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Her Flowering Caretaker & Daughter Retreat
A Day of Learning, Creativity, and Connection
Join us for a special retreat designed to foster understanding, celebration, and confidence in the menstrual cycle. This interactive experience brings caretakers and daughters together through education, creativity, and self-care practices. Together, we create a supportive space to explore the power of cyclical living and build meaningful connections.
Reserve your spot today and embrace the journey of growth and empowerment!
What to Expect:
Cycle Education – Learn about puberty and the menstrual cycle through engaging, hands-on activities.
Creative Exploration – Design a personalized period journal with dried flowers, magazines, and natural materials.
Self-Care & Rituals – Explore gentle movement, nervous system regulation, and cyclical living to embrace the natural rhythms of the body.
Reflection & Storytelling – Share experiences, write a letter to your future self, and connect across generations.
This retreat is designed to normalize conversations about menstruation, strengthen the caretaker-daughter bond, and empower young people with knowledge and confidence as they navigate this new phase in life.
Open to: Caretakers with daughters 8 and up.
When: Sunday, May 4th from 10:00am - 3:00pm.
Where: Sylvia’s Yurt in Arlee, MT. Directions will be emailed to you upon registration.
Cost: $175.00 per pair
Meet Carter
After graduating from college in Washington, Carter moved to Missoula to be near family and the mountains. With a background in early childhood education and program coordination, she is now a certified Reproductive Health and Fertility Awareness Educator. Carter teaches body literacy and fertility awareness classes to girls and women from menarche to menopause, with a focus on the Sympto-Thermal Method. A passionate trail runner, mountain biker, and skier, she is especially interested in female-specific exercise physiology and its connection to the menstrual cycle. Her work is driven by a desire to help women reconnect with and better understand their bodies.
Meet Melissa
Earth Within Girls (EWG) was founded in 2020 by Melissa Lafontaine, inspired by her healing journey with plant-based self-care and hormonal balance. Rooted in her graduate work in Environmental Studies at the University of Montana and her floral design business, EWG began with community workshops and gained momentum after a successful guardian-daughter event on International Women’s Day. Now offering after-school programs, camps, and workshops, EWG focuses on hormonal health, cycle literacy, and nature connection.
Melissa is a certified Moon Meeting Facilitator (The Way of the Womb) and Functional Hormonal Health Coach (Cycle Seeds), and she leads inclusive, empowering programs for female-identifying and non-binary youth.
6-Week Fall 2025 After-School Program
Earth Within Girls helps girls develop skills in hormonal literacy, plant wisdom and floral art while building friendships and confidence. Girls will create weekly DIY self-care remedies with plants to place in their take home 'moon baskets' that they will have access to whenever they need a little extra love. As Fall unfolds before us, girls will familiarize themselves with native and non-native plants and ethical foraging. They will leave the program with skills in how to make honey infusions, body care products, flower crowns and how to track their bodies natural cycles while tuning into the cues of nature!
Open to Girls Ages 8-12
When: 2:30-4:00pm on Thursdays from September 25th to October 30th
Where: Jeanette Rankin Peace Center (519 S Higgins Ave) for Indoor Meetups / Separate Outdoor Location TBA Weather Permitting
Cost: $175- Scholarships available!
6-Week Winter 2025 After-School Program
Earth Within Girls helps girls develop skills in hormonal literacy, plant wisdom and floral art while building friendships and confidence. Girls will create weekly DIY self-care remedies with plants to place in their take home 'moon baskets' that they will have access to whenever they need a little extra love. As Fall unfolds before us, girls will familiarize themselves with native and non-native plants and ethical foraging. They will leave the program with skills in how to make honey infusions, body care products, flower crowns and how to track their bodies natural cycles while tuning into the cues of nature!
Open to Girls Ages 8-12
When: 2:30-4:00pm on November 6th 2025 to December 18th
*The week of Thanksgiving there will be no meeting
Where: Jeanette Rankin Peace Center (519 S Higgins Ave) for Indoor Meetups / Separate Outdoor Location TBA Weather Permitting
Cost: $175- Scholarships available!
Call For Artists: “Blooming Bodies” Fundraising Art Event
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Root Medicine Kits & Wild Dyes Summer Camps (weeks 1, 2)
Week 1: August 5th-9th
Week 2: August 19th-23rd
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Flower Medicine Kits & Moon Plants Summer Camp (weeks 1, 2)
Week 1: July 8th-11th
Week 2: July 22nd-26th
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Call For Artists: Women - A Force of Nature Fundraising Art Auction Event
Details & Submission Link Here!…
Summer Break
Thanks for participating in our Spring activities! We hope you have a wonderful Summer break! Please visit Learning with Meaning or Two Eagles River School for more information about our Summer camp collaborations in July. We’ll be back with more activities and events in the September!
Song Circle & Plant Walk
Join us for an afternoon of solidarity and nature with Sacred Ally! Our May Caretaker/Daughter Workshop series will examine local plants and blooms along a walk from Sacred Ally to a nearby park. There we will host a meditation and song circle focused on cycles and empowerment.
For caretakers, girls ages 6+, and supporters in the community who identify as women.
Register via the ‘Enroll’ page
Flower Hair Clips at MUD Earth Day
Join us at the 17th annual Missoula Urban Demonstration Project Earth Day Celebration to honor and showcase Missoula’s vibrant sustainability community! This year’s event is focused on the theme of “Our Earth, Our Home” to engage everyone in thinking about how our actions at home can benefit the planet. We’ll be creating flower hair clips for kids to take home. We hope to see you there!
The celebration will take place at MUD, Home ReSource and adjacent properties.
Free & Open to the Public (No registration required)
Pressed Flower Moon Journals at Noteworthy Paper & Press
Join us for an evening of paper fun with Noteworthy Paper & Press. We will build excitement for spring blooms by decorating journals with pressed flowers from last season. We will discuss ways to track the moon/seasonal shifts and menstrual cycles using your beautiful journal!
Register via the ‘Enroll’ page
Moon Bracelets with Bathing Beauty Beads
Join us for an evening of herbal tea and bracelet making at Bathing Beauty Beads! We will learn how to use different gem stones to track the different phases or the moon/ menstrual cycle.
$20/ person or $40/ pair. Register via the ‘Enroll’ page
"My daughter loved it, it's so important to develop a "starter" women's community at her age. Sparked great dialogue, and helpful to have someone else in her village enhancing what we discuss at home." -Ashley H.
"I learned a lot about herbs and made lots of things to help me when I get my period. I have a lot of oils, rubs, and herb bags!" - 6-Week Participant
"I liked being in EWG because it made me feel comfortable talking about the period." - 6-Week Participant
"It was very fun and now I'm ready for my periods." -6-Week Participant
"I felt happy and relaxed here because we got to do self care."
"I felt more ready for my period and when I self care, I felt comfortable around my group and I loved all of the things we made." - 6-Week Participant