2012 Events

Whole Foods Market

October 27, 2012, noon-5:00pm - Memphis, TN

Thanks Whole Foods Market in Memphis, TN for inviting us to educate on healthy living and safe, organic, Non-GMO food options. We met some amazing people all wanting to connect on these issues and wanting to share their stories on how they healed themselves through food and an eco-safe lifestyle. It was super fun to show people how to go zero waste by bottle bricking, all about waste veggie oil and alternative fuel options, and how to live simply and sustainably. Thanks Whole Foods management for having the Eco Womb Tour Bus and our family there for the day, and thanks for providing organic, Non-GMO food options to the people of Memphis, it is greatly appreciated by all! We were able to share with families how to go Non-GMO, organic, and eco-safe, and you provide the means for them to do that right there in their own community. Also thanks to everyone who came by to support us and engage in beautiful, conscious conversation! We enjoyed connecting and sharing and learning from one another as we all continue to take steps to a healthier, more sustainable future!

The Cosmic Coconut

October 26, 2012, 6:00pm-9:00pm - Memphis, TN

Great speaking event at The Cosmic Coconut in Memphis, TN with Fuel for the Body Bike Tour and Chris Beat Cancer! We enjoyed an evening of sharing, educating, and uplifting conversations on how to heal yourself and feel amazing on healthy, organic, Non-GMO foods. We also enjoyed learning how this little gem of organic goodness was going green and how they were keeping it alive so that the community had a place to get energized! Thanks to everyone we met and for your stories and connections! This is why we do what we do!

Jonesboro Health Food Store

October 24, 2012, 4:00pm-7:00pm - Jonesboro, AR

Right after our event at Panera Bread that morning, we headed on over to Jonesboro Health Food Store for an evening of conversations and a seminar by the Organic Guru Lynnette Pate from Fuel for the Body Bike Tour. We enjoyed teaching some littles all about going zero waste, as our daughter joined in to show her new friends how to stuff trash into a bottle brick. And, we enjoyed the many conversations we had regarding how to go organic on a budget, what first steps you can take to gain back your health through whole, healthy foods, how to make kombucha, and being awake in this time of transformation. Thanks to all who stopped by, who showed your support, and who stayed to hear Lynnette's story on how growing up on Monsanto farmland impacted her health and the health of her family until they healed themselves through food.

Panera Bread

October 24, 2012, 11:00am-2:00pm - Jonesboro, AR

Continuing on with Fuel for the Body Bike Tour we made it to Jonesboro, AR, in the heart of Monsanto farmland. While there is much support for Monsanto and GMOs here, there were so many people yearning for more information on living healthy and why so many are getting sick and allergic to our foods. People want organic, safe options and we heard more than once how people here want a larger selection of Non-GMO foods brought to this area. One lady told us she drives two hours to Memphis, TN just to shop at Whole Foods Market so she can stock up on healthy foods, and that Panera Bread is the only place in town that she can eat an organic vegetarian meal. Thank you Panera Bread for offering organic food options to Jonesboro, and for inviting us here to share this message on living healthy and being eco-safe for your family's well-being! Our spirits are lifted knowing that a franchise like Panera Bread supports its customers Right to Know what is in our food!

Go Green Festival

October 21, 2012, 10:00am-5:00pm - Thayer, MO

Thanks for the invite Thayer, MO! We had a great time at the Go Green Festival and loved learning from the other vendors how they are prepared to be off-grid and steps their community members had taken to be more sustainable. Everything from how to hand pump your own water with a bicycle, to solar fans, to heirloom seeds, to handmade bows and arrows. Thanks to all who stopped by the Eco Womb Tour Bus and for all of the conscious conversations had about being awake during this time of transformation! We love that we are finding pockets of community everywhere that make us all feel that much more connected!

Ferguson Farmer's Market

October 13, 2012, 8:00am-12:00pm - St. Louis, MO

Joining up with Fuel for the Body Bike Tour in St. Louis, MO, we jumped right in with a tour of EarthDance Farms, helping them harvest tomatoes for market on Friday, and then got to participate in the Ferguson Farmer's Market that Saturday. What an amazing urban farm and market and what an open community, inviting us to come and making room for the Eco Womb Tour Bus! Thank you organizers! Organic tea, homemade veggie omelettes, wagon rides for the littles, and live music, what a perfect day! Thanks to all who came by to see us and all who engaged in lively conversation and interest. We enjoyed coloring veggie oil buses with the littles, talking alternative fuel, sharing how to go zero waste by bottle bricking, and how to go Non-GMO with your family on a budget. Thank you to everyone who also supported Eco Womb with your purchases of eco-safe products for your family, 100% of all sales goes toward our Educational Programs and enables us to do this!

Occupy Monsanto - Ithaca, NY

September 17, 2012, 12noon-5:00pm - Ithaca, NY

With over 75 actions worldwide this week to stand up against Monsanto and demand the right to know what is in our food, we knew we had to be a part with the Eco Womb family. With an event scheduled in Ithaca, NY, where we just happened to be headed to connect with friends, and with the help of the Genetic Crimes Unit team, we connected with Joanne who also happens to be very active in protests against fracking, another important issue that we care very much about and that needs a greater voice.

It was a small turnout, but nothing stops a mama on a mission! We aired The World According to Monsanto all day so that passer-by could get a glance at the evils behind Monsanto, and learn the history and connections between Monsanto and the government. We passed out educational flyers from the Non-GMO Project to inform people on what a GMO is, the detrimental effects on farmers, our soil, and our health. We sang music to the tune of "All we want's a simple label, for the food that's on our table" carrying on the energy of the Right2Know March.

And, we connected with so many people yearning for information on GMO's, what steps they could take to eat safer, why it is so important to make our voices heard, and how to shop Non-GMO on a tight budget. THANK YOU to ALL who came out and supported us in our efforts to stand up against Monsanto and for GMO labeling, and even more importantly, THANK YOU to ALL who stopped by to learn and ask questions and seek ways to change what you eat so that you, too, can vote with your forks and your dollars. ALL of us are creating big change!

College of the Atlantic Eco Womb Educational Seminar

September 2, 2012, 11:00am-1:00pm - Bar Harbor, Maine

What started off as an educational experience for the kids turned into a connection that brought the Eco Womb Tour Bus to the College of the Atlantic. Love how those connections happen! On one of our last days in Acadia National Park, we took the Eco Womb kids to a Touch Tank educational program at the George B. Dorr Museum of Natural History. We happened to meet Erickson who happened to be on the Sustainability Committee for the College of the Atlantic and it just happened that he invited us to provide a workshop on campus which happened to be the first day of orientation for new students and the last day we were on Mt. Desert Island. Love how things work out! It really all happens the way it is supposed to happen.

We had a lovely tour of their community garden, composting area and solar electric system. We picked fresh apples right off the trees, got to sample the most delicious tomatoes and peppers, and provided a workshop on simple and sustainable living, how to go Zero Waste with bottle bricks, the importance of Non-GMO's and what is happening with Prop37, and did a complete waste veggie oil demonstration. We had a great turnout since the students had just finished up touring the campus that morning, and we thoroughly enjoyed our time connecting with and educating the students at the College of the Atlantic, while at the same time learning from them, as well.

Thanks so much for hosting us College of the Atlantic, and providing our family with the most delicious organic goodness from your garden! We look forward to coming back!

Shopping for Truth at Trader Joe's

July 29th, 2012, 2:00-4:00pm - Portland, Maine

As a part of Eco Womb's 2012-2013 Tour, we have decided to 'Shop for Truth at Trader Joe's' in Portland, Maine with The Conscious Caravan, a traveling tribe of families advocating for socially and eco-conscious change and helping educate communities on healthy living, including eating safe, organic, Non-GMO foods. We will be shopping with our families in tow and asking what their "assurance" means when it comes to saying they use Non-GMO sources. We want verification on their Non-GMO claim and we want to encourage them to contact the Non-GMO Project for certification, or we will be letting a whole lot of families know that they cannot trust shopping there. We will have flyers to hand out to help spread the message on why Non-GMO's are so important and talking with as many people as we can who are shopping for their families and have the right to know what is in our food!

We participated in the Right2Know March last fall, from NYC to Washington, DC, covering 313 miles of raising awareness on GMO’s (Genetically Modified Organisms), and walking and setting up for events along the way with our three kids in tow. We now want to continue to march and continue to educate on the importance of what we put into our bodies and into our soil, and the impact it makes on the future for our kids. Our Tour this year includes any stops we can make across the country where we can educate and advocate for safe foods and a healthy environment.

We are excited to get to Portland and energized to be a part of Shopping for Truth at Trader Joe's! If you are in the area, please come on out and join us! Just look for the Eco Womb Tour Bus in the parking lot on Sunday from 2-4pm, July 29th.

To learn more about the Shop for Truth campaign click these links: http://occupy-monsanto.com and https://www.facebook.com/events/246481688804727/.

The Conscious Corner

June 16, 2012, 12:00-4:00pm - Olney, MD

Join us as we help the Conscious Corner at Roots Market in Olney, MD celebrate their 12 year anniversary! We will be on site to discuss healthy eating, simple and sustainable living, how to shop for Non-GMOs, going Zero Waste, the importance of play, deepening your connections with your family through art and conscious living, and choosing alternative fuels while also discovering what fuels you! Clean Currents, Honest Tea, and others will join us for a day of food, family, fuel and fun! See Roots Market and The Conscious Corner for more details!

DrumStrong 2012

May 19-20, 2012 - Charlotte, NC

IT'S TIME TO DRUMSTRONG!!! Come out and BANG on something to B•E•A•T cancer! MAY 19 & 20, 2012 with Keller Williams & WMDS!, George Porter, Jr & Runnin' Pardners, Jeff Sipe & Friends, Eyes of the Elders, Inner Visions roots reggae and much more.

DRUMSTRONG events raise awareness and funds for important cancer programs globally through rhythm, funding cancer education, research and survivorship support.

The 6th annual interactive R•H•Y•T•H•M event will set a world record, engage communities Globally and feature stage sets (and spontaneous combustJams!) by great artists sharing their hearts and talents. Also, an opportunity to play with them in the 30 hour non-stop Drum Circle... 

Health Expo :: Full Stage :: Vendors :: KidZone :: YogaThon :: BellyDancers :: Parades :: Camping :: Drum Circle!

Misty Meadows Farm :: 455 Providence Rd S. & Ennis Rd :: Weddington, NC 28173 (just 4 miles south of Charlotte)

$30. per Person :: $50 per Family for the entire weekend. rain or SHINE! (we've got BIG tents).

Proceeds benefit local and national cancer organizations.

See details @ WWW.DRUMSTRONG.ORG Find a DRUMSTRONG event near your Village and come out & Play!

Drum in honor or in memory of someone or for your own fortification and support survivorship. It's YOUR RHYTHM :: YOUR CAUSE

5th Annual Asheville Earth Day Festival

April 21, 2012 - Lexington Street, Asheville, NC - 12:00-10:00PM

Eco Womb's 2012 Tour will kick off on April 21st at Asheville Earth Day! Join us in downtown Asheville as we launch this year's tour as sponsor of the Kid Village. Enjoy fun, family crafts and education on how to take steps to become more eco-conscious with your family!. This fun filled family event which includes live music is FREE to attend. For more information see Asheville Earth Day Festival.

Come join Eco Womb as we dicuss the benefits of alternative fuels, renewable energy, simple and sustainable living, and why we are standing up and speaking out to get GMO foods labeled. We will also be showcasing all of our new products, including wooden toys and organic shirts from our local artisans.