by Jacob Hundt | Sep 19, 2022 | Blog, News, Uncategorized
At Thoreau College, we have always considered our campus to be Viroqua, Vernon County, and the wider Driftless Region more generally. Students have lived in several regular residential homes in town that we have rented and equipped with gardens and chicken coops. We...
by James Wheeler | Jul 27, 2021 | Blog, Uncategorized
Written by: Garden Juju Collective Thoreau College, Driftless Folk School are offering a 4-day Walkabout Permaculture intensive course this summer 3rd – 6th of August in Wisconsin in collaboration with Bridget O’Brien, Dr Charlie Brennan of Garden Juju...
by James Wheeler | 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 Franciszka Voeltz | 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 Franciszka Voeltz | 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 Franciszka Voeltz | 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...
