Gather. Learn. Make. Remember.
Forest of Life offers small, seasonal gatherings for women rooted in the land, practical knowledge, creativity, and connection. We come together to learn with our hands, share what we know, question what we’ve been taught, and recover skills and ways of knowing that are easily lost in modern life.
Women’s Circles & Seasonal Gatherings
Around the fire, in the forest, at the table. Gatherings follow the seasons and create space for conversation, ritual, reflection, food, laughter, and connection.
Wild & Practical Skills
Grow food. Identify plants. Preserve the harvest. Split wood. Tend a fire. Prune a tree. Use tools. Mend things. Understand solar power. Make medicine. Read the landscape. Workshops are hands-on, imperfect, and meant to build confidence not expertise.
Craft, Food & Old Skills
Herbal remedies, fermentation, natural dyes, basketry, mending, seed saving, candle making, wild foods, wreaths, salves, teas, and whatever else someone arrives knowing how to teach.
Forest Days & Retreats
Sometimes the offering is simply time: a day or weekend to walk, write, make something, sit by the fire, work in the garden, swim, sleep, think, or do very little.
Bring What You Know
Forest of Life isn't built around experts and students. We all carry knowledge worth sharing. Come teach something your mother or grandmother taught you. Bring a skill from another part of the world. Lead a walk. Cook something. Tell a story. Ask a question. Try something you've always wanted to learn.
Come curious. Leave a little wilder.
The FOL Field School
Small, hands-on classes for women who want to know how to grow, make, mend, forage, build, tend, and live a little closer to the land.
Wild & Herbal
Plant identification · Foraging · Herbal teas & tinctures · Salves & balms · Wild foods · Growing medicinal herbs
Grow & Gather
Seed starting · Vegetable gardening · Perennials · Pruning · Seed saving · Harvesting · Food preservation
Fire & Forest
Building a good fire · Splitting & stacking wood · Tree identification · Forest tending · Trail skills · Reading the landscape
Make & Mend
Basic tool skills · Simple carpentry · Home repair · Mending · Natural dyes · Basketry · Candle making
Food & Ferment
Sourdough · Fermentation · Canning · Pickling · Drying herbs & foods · Cooking from the garden
Off-Grid & Resilient
Solar basics · Living with less energy · Water collection · Composting systems · Wood heat · Tiny-house systems · Preparing for outages
Seasonal
Solstice & equinox gatherings · Wreath making · Winter herbs · Spring tonics · Autumn preserving · Fire circles · Full-moon walks
No Experience Necessary
Come for one class or many. Classes are small, informal, and rooted in doing rather than watching. Some are taught by Forest of Life; others by women from our wider community who have something wonderful to share.
Get your hands dirty.
Learn something useful. Pass it on.
