What We Are.
Forest of Life is a place for exploring how we can live, work, and adapt well in a rapidly changing world. Rooted in an off-grid farm in the hills of Vermont, we bring together ideas and practices from regenerative agriculture, community, governance, and organizational change. We believe resilience is not simply about preparing for disruption, but about cultivating the relationships, knowledge, systems, and ways of living that allow people and places to thrive through change. Forest of Life is both a physical place and a wider practice, a living laboratory for learning, experimentation, exchange, and connection. Through hands-on projects, workshops and gatherings, retreats, and advisory work, we create opportunities to learn from the land, from one another, and from people and communities working toward more regenerative, equitable, and resilient futures.
A Place for Women to Root, Reimagine and Grow
Forest of Life is rooted in a vision of creating space for women to imagine and practice more connected, resilient, and regenerative ways of living. We believe there is particular power in bringing women together across generations, backgrounds, and experiences to share knowledge, learn practical skills, deepen our relationship with the natural world, and explore how we want to live in a time of profound change.
Our intention is to cultivate a place where women can step outside the demands and expectations of everyday life, reconnect with themselves and one another, experiment with new ways of living and leading, and draw upon the wisdom that already exists within our communities. Through land-based learning, conversation, creativity, reflection, and shared experience, Forest of Life seeks to nurture greater confidence, connection, and possibility and to help women carry what they discover here back into their families, communities, organizations, and the wider world.
Who We Are
Forest of Life is a women-led, intergenerational homestead and learning space tucked into the woods of southern Vermont. We are gardeners, makers, teachers, learners, mothers, daughters, friends, and curious women figuring things out as we go. We grow food, tend the land, build and fix things, experiment with off-grid living, share meals and skills, and learn from women whose experiences are different from our own. We don’t pretend to have all the answers. Forest of Life is about learning together, getting our hands dirty, trying new things, and creating a little more space for connection, confidence, creativity, and joy.
