The Folk School Radio Hour - April 2025 - Wilderness Skills with Nicholas WazeeGale
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 with Nicholas and Julie:
Tune in the 4th Wednesday of every month from 5-6PM on WDRT 91.9FM 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.
Interested in listening to all of the past episodes? Tune in here…
Join Nicholas for his upcoming Driftless Folk School Wilderness Skills classes:
Saturday, May 3-or-Saturday, May 10— Spring Foraging in the Driftless (both are full, join the waitlists!)
Saturday, May 17 - Sunday, May 18— Spring Wilderness Skills Overnight Outing
Saturday and Sunday, June 7-8 — Ecological Literacy in the Driftless
Nicholas WazeeGale is a lifelong student of the natural world, traditional cultures, and sustainability. His life is intricately tied to the Driftless landscape through foraging plant and fungi foods, hunting and fishing, tanning skins, making traditional handcraft, and obsessively observing and tracking the myriad unfoldings of the living landscape. He is a long time instructor with the Driftless Folks School and other outdoor education institutions, contracts as a professional wildlife tracker with the Wisconsin DNR, and teaches at the Kickapoo Valley Forest School. He is a certified Wilderness Guide through a year long wilderness living immersion course and holds both a Professional and Specialist Certification in track and sign via Tracker Certification North America.
Find him online at…
Instagram: @naturalnuances and/or @wildrootshandcrafts
Facebook: Nicholas WazeeGale
