by Jacob Hundt | May 24, 2021 | Blog, Students, Uncategorized
By Jacob Rowland, 2020 Fall Semester Program Thoreau College is a singular place, and perhaps a hard place to understand. The applicant process is, in a way, opposite to the ordinary college search process: most colleges have extensive websites, virtual tours, and...
by Jacob Hundt | Mar 4, 2021 | Blog
On Thursday, December 17, 2020, ten Clun Forest ewes and one Icelandic-Merino ewe arrived at Compostella Farm, home of the Thoreau College farm program. They barrelled out of the trailer and then stood there, looking around sheepishly. Since then, our ewes (and one...
by Jacob Hundt | Feb 12, 2021 | Blog, People, Students
Thoreau College’s second fellow cohort includes Deep Springs College alumni Rory O’Hollaren (DS’18), Levi Freedman (DS’18), and Sean Coomey (DS’19). It is exciting to have them here because Thoreau College was born from the virtues of the Nunnian education that is the...
by Jacob Hundt | Jan 15, 2021 | Blog, News
When we set the stage for our Fall 2020 semester program, our students were aware they could continue on in the new year as fellows after completing the fall semester and taking a much needed winter break. When the fall semester began, we weren’t sure who would...
by Jacob Hundt | Sep 17, 2020 | Blog, People
By student Meadow Kinder Evan Edwards is Thoreau College’s very own vegan chef extraordinaire. A meal that highlights his cooking style was when he prepared us beet slabs and fried bananas, topped with tempeh, toasted walnuts, mustard microgreens, and garlic yogurt...
