11/02/2026
Grand Rapids friends!! 🌿🔥
We realized that a LOT of our followers are from your fair city, and we’d LOVE to come your way to teach some workshops this fall and winter!
For those who don’t know us yet, we’re Soul Fire Forest, a permaculture farm and community-building project in Montague, Michigan!
Instead of spending decades chasing wealth, we’ve put our focus and intention into building skills, growing food, and creating community. And we’d LOVE to share what we’ve learned with you!
With food insecurity on the rise, the cost of living getting harder to manage, and a government that seems increasingly disconnected from the actual needs of its people, we believe building community resilience is more important than ever. Knowing how to grow and preserve food, repair things instead of replacing them, work with the land, and care for each other gives us more choices and makes us less dependent on systems that aren’t always looking out for us. And the beautiful thing is that we don’t all have to know how to do everything! That’s what community is for. We can share skills, resources, knowledge, and the load of being human. We believe real security comes from having people we can count on, skills we can share, and communities that know how to take care of each other.
And we think learning these things should be FUN! Full of curiosity, creativity, laughter, and connection, not another overwhelming list of things you need to master to be a good human. ❤️
We know a lot of what we share comes from our experiences growing food and building systems out here in the boonies, but we also have experience with urban gardening and growing food in small spaces! There’s so much that can be done with even a tiny backyard or patio. We’re also big fans of biochar, which has some pretty incredible applications in urban gardening, including its ability to bind certain heavy metals commonly found in city soils, making them less available to plants.
But we don’t just teach about gardening! Check out our awesome list of workshop offerings below! 👇
Our workshops cover everything from permaculture, food forests, biochar, composting, food preservation and fermentation to herbalism, mushroom cultivation, natural building (cob, straw bale, earthbag), appropriate technology, off-grid systems, tool maintenance, and practical homesteading skills.
And there’s a whole other side to what we do! Women’s circles, fertility awareness and cycle charting, nervous system regulation, music and singing circles, creative arts, ecstatic dance, conscious parenting, conflict resolution, community building, shared childcare, and workshops and activities for kids and teens!
Basically, we have a LOT of things we love learning about, experimenting with, and sharing with others. 😂
All of these workshops can be offered as individual events, OR you can treat this list like a menu! If you’re organizing a retreat, festival, community gathering, or weekend of learning, you can mix and match workshops to create an experience that fits your group. We’d love to collaborate!
So take a look through the slides and tell us which workshops call to you most! What would you be excited to learn or explore with us?
We’re also looking for places to host! We’ve already gotten a few suggestions, including Fountain Street Church, but we’d love more ideas. Do you know of any community spaces, organizations, or venues that might be a good fit for Soul Fire Forest workshops?
And if you’re NOT in Grand Rapids but know of another great place for us to teach, please chime in too! We’re open to traveling and would love to bring these skills to more communities.
We’d love to meet more of you in person, share what we’ve learned (and are still learning!), and make some new connections along the way! ❤️
Drop your workshop votes, venue ideas, and location suggestions in the comments! 👇
