Julie sits down with Rock Hancock and talks about natural fitness for all human bodies. Rock is a certified MovNat instructor with nearly two decades of experience in movement and body mechanics.

The podcast is hosted by Jacob Hundt, Founder of Thoreau College, a micro college rooted in the Driftless Region of rural southwestern Wisconsin, inspired by the model of Deep Springs College, Waldorf education, and Henry David Thoreau… Listeners will discover exciting educational programs to apply to, books to read, and thinkers to learn more about.

Host Julie Tomaro talks with Clint Grabhorn about what it means to be a crafter and the benefits of living a crafty lifestyle.

The Driftless Folk School, founded in 2006, is turning 20 this year!!

Julie Tomaro chats with some of the early founders of the folk school as well as the current registrar about where the folk school is going.

“It is all about relationships,” says Martha Buche. She holds a basalt rock in one hand, a piece of the ancient lava flows that formed the basin of Lake Superior. Millions of years later, the sands and sways of Lake Superior have since polished the rock into a smooth, rounded cobblestone. Buche will use this as a hammer. In her other hand, Buche holds a shining sheet of copper. The copper is symbolic of the nearly pure copper deposits within the Lake Superior basalt. Copper that Indigenous peoples around Lake Superior—Gichigami in Ojibwe—have worked with for thousands of years.

Julie Tomaro talks to Kristina Schnapf from the Green Door Folk School in Cedar, Micigan. At only 8 months old Green Door Folk School is one of the newest in the growing cohort of folk schools in the uppoer midwest…

Julie Tomaro chats with Jacob Hundt, Executive Director of the Driftless Folk School and Thoreau College, about a recent trip to Denmark to visit the International People’s College for the International Folkemode for Educators conference…

Julie Tomaro chats with Tom Wheeler, Terry Beck and Jarrod Torkelson about the upcoming spoon carving get together as well as green wood working, craft and the religion of tool sharpening in this month’s Folk School Radio Hour Show!

The 13th Annual Driftless Spoon Gathering will take place Friday, September 12th through Sunday, September 14th.

Julie Tomaro talks with Liam McGilligan and Tom Kastle about the upcoming Viroqua Shakespeare Festival and Piracy on the Great Lakes.

Join us for this enlightening episode and get excited about the upcoming festival running June 27, 28th and 29th.

Host Julie Tomaro sits down with dedicated naturalist and passionate educator Nicholas WazeeGale to discuss humans immersing in nature as well as his upcoming Driftless Folk School classes.

Join us for this episode about wilderness skills and outdoor experiences…

The podcast is hosted by Jacob Hundt, Founder of Thoreau College, a micro college rooted in the Driftless Region of rural southwestern Wisconsin, inspired by the model of Deep Springs College, Waldorf education, and Henry David Thoreau… Listeners will discover exciting educational programs to apply to, books to read, and thinkers to learn more about.

Host Julie Tomaro talks with two experts and DFS Instructors - Linda Conroy in the first 30 minutes + Andi Reisdorf (née Bruce) in the last 30 minutes - about mushrooms! From the kitchen to the woods to Silicon Valley, there is a lot happening in the world of mushrooms.

Join us for this enlightening episode about all things fungi!

Join us for a potluck dinner and a chance to build connections, meet other members of the DFS Community, and chat about Folk School topics like land stewardship, natural building woodworking, arts & crafts, organic agriculture, herbalism, wilderness skills, home cooking, and more!

Open to everyone! FREE EVENT! Every 4th Wednesday of the month from 6-7PM.

Introducing... The Folk School Radio Hour!

Tune in the Fourth Wednesday of every month at 5pm for The Folk School Radio Hour, hosted by familiar voices from Viroqua's own Driftless Folk School. We'll be having thoughtful conversation around craft, traditional ways, nutrition, wild spaces and the simple abundance of this beautiful Earth. Listen on WDRT 91.9 FM!

VOTE 11/8/24 - 11/18/24

We are excitedly reaching out to you with a great opportunity to help support the work of the Folk School with just a few clicks of a button. As an added bonus you can help other local community organizations at the same time…

During this lush and vibrant time of year, we will spend these days learning and experiencing all we can of the living landscape of the Driftless region. The array of trees, diverse herbaceous plants of forest and meadow, nesting birds, elusive mammals, and frogs, insects, fungi, and reptiles will all be explored as we work to comprehend the workings of the overall natural community here. Through the tools of drawing, discussion, observation, tracking, sits, and creative activity these plants and animals will be understood first-hand and become personally known, appreciated and respected neighbors in life upon this land.

Folk Schools model an educational approach that places relationship, culture, and personal + community empowerment at the center of learning and life!

Calling ALL voices! You are invited to come and sing with us! Community Singing is accessible to anyone and everyone. All songs are taught call and response (no need to read music or have previous singing experience). They are simple, yet beautiful when sung together. Some songs are rounds, some have multiple simple parts, and some have simple harmonies. This kind of singing is for the sheer joy of being together in community, and there is no performance. Come experience the pleasure of simple connection with others through music.