The Folk School Radio Hour

Julie sits down with Jacob Hundt of the Microcollege Podcast to chat with preeminent expert on the Driftless Region, Curt Miene. Curt has been studying, writing about and lecturing on the Driftless Region for over forty years.

Julie sits down with Frank Wildingway and Janelle Hillman to talk about the Sixteenth year of the Viroqua Harvest Parade.

Julie chats with Bridget O'Brien and Charlie Brennan of Garden Juju Collective an international design and education consultancy, about permaculture for designing land use as well as offering guiding principals throughout life. We play their game Adapt which prompts thought provoking expansion of ideas in all walks of life.

Julie sits down with Thoreau College Fellows, Annie Kelly and Will Young, to talk about their experiences being Fellows at Thoreau and the Driftless Folk School.

Julie sits down with Laura Mathis to talk about nutrition from the perspective of traditional communities and co-evolution of our complex biomes.

Julie sits down with two of the educators behind the Kickapoo Valley Forest School. Now in its fifth year, the school is seeing great success and modeling a unique kind of education in the upper mid-west.

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. http://movenat.com/from-fullsterkur-to-followers-how-social-mediadistorted-the-purpose-of-strength/

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

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

Julie 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 mid-west.

Julie chats with Jacob Hundt, Executive Director of the Driftless Folk School, about a recent trip to Denmak to visit the International Peoples College for the International Folkemode for Educators conference.

Julie 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.

Julie chats with Lucy Soderstrom, Executive Director, and Anna Heil, Program Director at Ely Folk School in Ely, Minnesota, as well as Driftless Folk School Fellow Lauren Proffitt. Conversation ranges from the variety of classes offed at regional folk schools, to the future of the folk school movement in light of AI and the changing world.