At Folk & Fire Apothecary, our mission is simple:
to nurture you, our community, and the planet.
We believe care is political. That bodies are sacred land. That rest, pleasure, and tending ourselves are not escapes from the work, but they are part of how we survive it and continue doing it.
Folk & Fire stands for collective liberation. For bodily autonomy, racial justice, disability justice, queer and trans lives, immigrant dignity, Indigenous sovereignty, and the right of people to exist without fear or violence. We believe access is a baseline, not a bonus. That healing happens in community. That mutual aid matters more than profit.
This is a radically left, woman-owned small business. We are committed to making care that helps people feel held and powerful while we work toward something better — for all of us, together.
Our StoryFolk & Fire makes herbal goods for skin and spirit.
We make herbal oils, balms, and body care as acts of devotion. Devotion to the body, to the land, to the practice of slowing down long enough to pay attention. Each product is crafted slowly, in small batches, with care for where the plants come from, how they were harvested, and what it means to work within seasonal limits. Most everything is harvested by hand by Sia, but what isn’t, is sourced from other ethical wildcrafters or local farmers.
We believe tending the body and tending the land are inseparable practices. The body is the edge the living membrane between your spirit and the earth. When you tend your skin with something made from the living world, you are weaving yourself even deeper into Nature.
Hey there, I’m sia, the maker behind Folk & Fire, and I have never lived anywhere but the edge.
I grew up on the Oklahoma plains, on the Colorado Plateau at the edge where the high desert breaks into canyon country, and on the exact line in Montana where the Rockies meet the plain and the mountain and the grassland just face each other across a road. I have moved something like 19 times and really, I don't know what it means to belong to one place — but I have spent my whole life learning the plants of wherever I am, and carrying them with me when I leave.
I am a Celtic pagan and herbalist, working from Welsh, Scottish, and Irish tradition, shaped by the landscapes I have moved through. The plant knowledge in this work is a reclamation — a coming back to what my ancestors knew, what some of them were hurt for knowing, what I am slowly, carefully learning to carry again. The PNW is my current ground. The high desert and the plains live in my hands alongside it.
I studied permaculture, druidry, and herbalism with Hawthorn & Honey, Blue Otter, Rowan & Sage, the University of Oregon, and the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids. But the foundation was always the land itself. My parents taught me to listen to it, move through it with respect and how to live as part of the ecosystem that feeds you.
Every product Folk & Fire makes is shaped by a specific place and a specific memory. Worldwalker carries the scent of the Colorado Plateau and Eastern Washington's sage steppe. Forest Dweller is an ode to the wet PNW I live in now. Woodswanderer is a love letter to afternoons in my dad's woodshop. These places live in every jar and bottle — not as nostalgia, but as the actual inherited knowledge of someone who has crossed a lot of thresholds and paid attention at every one.
