Welcome to Fire Rose Farm... where plants and people meet.

Fire Rose Farm is a small, inspired, abundant herb farm and plant sanctuary in the tiny town of McCleary, Washington.  We love and revere plants and are home to magnificent, unruly, overflowing gorgeous gardens and woodland trails. We grow vibrant and beautiful medicinal and culinary herbs, many fruits, flowers and veggies.  Then there are the trees and shrubs, the fungi and lichens.  The earth and sky.  There is so much life in every direction.  So much mystery.  Majesty. 

Our endeavor is beauty.  Everything we do, every plant we grow, every Fire we keep, every medicine we make, every class, every treatment, every ceremony... is intended to light the flame of Beauty.  Beauty is potent medicine.  It is filled with power and healing, suffering and grace, inspiration and acceptance, craziness and joy, truth and peace.  Wildness.  Inspiration.  Redemption.  Love.  It is filled with everything. 

Beauty is being in our bodies, connected to Self... and Other.  Magnificent.  Worth living for... worth striving for.  Worth seeing in every person and being we meet as we walk the wheel of life together.  And we do walk together.  All of us connected, related... by simply being here now.  All of us children of the Earth and Sky, manifestations of the myriad seasons of life.  In this way we are all indigenous.  We belong here.  All of us.  We each have a purpose and a meaning.  We each carry a radiant light made of the seasons of life.  This is our gift.  Our precious gift of life.

With the technical world rocketing forward, all the computerized tablets and pilots and carry alongs, all the cell phones, almost everyone I know has a cell phone.  Not me or Phillip, not Corinne or Claude, not Gallilee, but thats it.  Everyone else I know has a cell phone, and most of them are hand held computer systems.  Smart Phones.  They even talk.  And they are used a lot.  With all of the ways we are encouraged to think about things that don't really matter, who cares if Ashton Kutcher has a new girlfriend or that JLo's nipple peeked out from her million dollar gown at the Oscars.  How does any of that information make our life more valuable?  How does being able to dial up in mere seconds an answer to just about any question we might ask make us smarter?  It doesn't.  It is good to think with our own mind.  It is good and worthy to ponder the questions we might ask without the assault of other peoples thoughts and opinions... without the insidious propaganda.

But we want to belong, want to be a part of, don't want to be left out.  We want to be connected.  It is through our love of beauty we endeavor to encourage and help people to see beauty in themselves and others, in the world and all life, finding a deep and sustaining connection no computer or cell phone will match.  Ever.

We are in partnership with Nature.  We celebrate and study the seasons, their unique qualities and vibrations, their personalities and songs, their music and color as they dance the wheel of life.  We learn their medicine and teachings, their beauty and power.  I teach different classes and apprenticeships helping people enter the magical world of Holy Nature in ways that heal and change their life forever, awakening their senses and developing relationship and kinship with the light of spirit.

We make beautiful medicine here at Fire Rose Farm, and we inspire and teach others to make beautiful medicine.  We grow beautiful, unruly gardens, and inspire others to grow beautiful gardens.  Most of my students are inspired to create and grow gardens of their own, continuing to light the flame of beauty, engendering the wheel of life.

I am an initiated Keeper of The Sacred Fire.  The Sacred Fire is in everything I do.  Beauty and The Sacred Fire is in everything I do.  I take people to the Fire... and I take Fire to the people.

I offer classes, workshops and apprenticeships at different times throughout the year.  Please feel free to check back or contact me through this site.

This web site is in the acute process of being created, and I would rather be in the garden or apothecary than on the computer.  And need to be.  Please be patient... it is a vast and arduous task for me to learn this computer thing.  I am fairly illiterate here, but learn it I will.  Technology isn't bad, I don't think... it is just not everything. 

I will also have beautiful Fire Rose Farm Flower Essences and handmade herbcraft available on this site soon.

Thank you for visiting this web site for Fire Rose Farm.  It is my intention to create a site that is filled with the light of beauty, the light of plant medicine, and the light of Holy Nature... and by doing so, it is my prayer to illuminate a ray of beauty and healing into the world.  Drop me a note sometime.

Fire Rose Farm is dedicated to Her... and all that this means. 

May beauty be in all I do.

Joyce Netishen... farm hand, healer, and herbalist