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...
“Feed Us with Trees” with Elspeth Hay
Elspeth Hay is a writer, creator and host of the Local Food Report, whose lifelong curiosity helped produce her new book, Feed Us with Trees: Nuts and the Future of Food. Take time with this conversation as she unravels the stories of food scarcity and farming that...
July 22nd, 2025
Reading about the fascinating vast Pacific Ocean and the albatross who thrive in its thousands of miles of waves and wind, from Eye of the Albatross by Carl Safina; more from this great book today, published in 2002 by Henry Holt and Company LLC.
Crawford Stewardship Podcast – Episode 7 – Monique Hassman
Monique Hassman, the GIS Specialist/Land Information Officer for Vernon County. Today, she joins host Joseph Childs and Amy Fenn to discuss how cool maps can be and their uses for improving quality of life in rural areas.
New Leo Moon
One of the things they don’t often tell us is that Leo is a season where the Sun is waning. We’re heading back to Winter, folks. Leo is often caricatured as dramatic and flamboyant, expressive and radiant. Leo shines on the stage. Leo sings it barbaric yawlp! While...
Hideouts
For when you need to get away...
July 18
July 17, 2025: Exploring Affect
An exploration of Affect (the amount of energy or interest in what we are aware of, and how it feels in the mind and body) as a way of noticing the subtle beginnings of our reactivity.
July 17th, 2025
Sometimes with the memories of lost objects if we pay attention – come the best insights – and the best stories. RESTORATION by Catherine Young is from the ecopoetry collection Geosmin published by Water’s Edge Press.
July 15th, 2025
Another trip to the middle of the pacific ocean to be with the albatrosses and other seabirds that breed on the remote tiny islets of the Hawaiian archipelago. I'm reading from the first chapter of Eye of the Albatross by Carl Safina; full of delight and surprises.