• Folk & Fire Apothecary is rooted in care, community, and relationship.

  • We make herbal oils, balms, and body care as acts of devotion to the body and the land. Each product is crafted slowly, with attention to where our plants come from, how they are harvested, and what it means to work within seasonal limits. We believe tending the body and tending the land are inseparable practices. Care should nourish without exploitation, and making medicine should leave both people and ecosystems better supported than before.

    We believe care is political and that bodies are sacred land. Rest, pleasure, and tending ourselves are not escapes from the work, but part of how we survive it.

    We stand for collective liberation and against systems that harm, exclude, or erase. We believe in bodily autonomy, racial justice, disability justice, queer and trans lives, immigrant dignity, Indigenous sovereignty, and the right of people to live without fear or violence.

    We believe access is a baseline, not a bonus.

    That healing happens in community.

    That mutual aid and solidarity matter more than respectability or profit.

    Folk & Fire is a radically left, woman-owned small business. We are committed to making care that helps people feel held, nourished, and powerful while we work toward something better for all of us, together.
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Hey, I'm Sia

As the maker behind Folk & Fire, I create earth-based body care and teach seasonal medicine rooted in place, story, and reciprocity. I live on Bainbridge Island with my wild-hearted family, and I’ve been lucky to grow up in wild places like Oklahoma, Montana, and southwestern Colorado. My parents taught me to listen to the land, tend animals, move through the woods with awareness, and live as part of the ecosystem that feeds you.

After college, I studied permaculture, druidry, and herbalism with schools and teachers including Hawthorn & Honey, Blue Otter, Rowan & Sage, the University of Oregon, and the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids. Every drop of education merged with that hands-on way of living to create something truly special. At its heart, Folk & Fire is dedicated to reconnecting people with nature.

Every product reflects that philosophy, crafted to honor the land, the seasons, and the connections that shape us. The Land inspires everything we make: Worldwalker Beard Salve carries the scent of the Colorado Plateau and Eastern Washington’s sage steppe; Forest Dweller is an ode to the PNW wilderness; and Woodswanderer is a love letter to afternoons in my dad’s woodshop. These places and memories live in every jar, bottle, and balm, creating truly one-of-a-kind, ritually crafted herbal care.

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