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The Folk School Radio Hour

by WDRT

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 the this beautiful Earth.

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Episodes

  1. Lets Go Parading!!

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

  2. Adapt for Life

    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...

  3. A Year (or two) In The 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.

  4. Nutrition for the Whole Human

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

  5. Forest Schooling in the Driftless

    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.

  6. Human Fitness

    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/

  7. The Heart of a Crafter

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

  8. Twenty Years!!

    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.

  9. Let’s Start A Folk School

    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.

  10. Jacob Goes to Denmark

    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.

  11. Driftless Spoon Gathering

    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.

  12. Doing the Folk School Thing

    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...

  13. Folk Music and Voice

    Julie talks with Driftless Folk School instructors Brennan Henry Allsworth and Ally Smalley about their upcoming micro-classes at the DFS Community Celebration as well as their connection with musical communities through singing, playing and dancing.

  14. Viroqua Shakespear Festival

    Julie talks with Liam McGilligan and Tom Kastle about the upcoming 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.

  15. April, 2025

    Julie 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.

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

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 the this beautiful Earth.

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What is The Folk School Radio Hour about?

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 the this beautiful Earth.

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