From a Facebook group, The Driftless Folk School.

What is the Driftless Area?

The Driftless Folk School is rooted in rural Southwest Wisconsin, in the heart of the Driftless of the upper Midwest.

This unique bio-region was left untouched by the great Pleistocene glaciers that leveled most of the Midwest, preserving a rich landscape of ridges and valleys traversed by countless small streams and rivers, as well as by the upper Mississippi River. 

This landscape of lush hardwood forests and small dairy farms is home to a high level of biodiversity, as well as a diversity of human cultures and agricultures. For thousands of years, the area has been home to the Ho-Chunk Nation and other indigenous peoples. Today, the Driftless Region is also home to the descendants of Norwegian and German immigrants, a thriving Amish community, and many others. It is also a major center of the organic and sustainable agriculture movement in the United States, anchored by Organic Valley, now one of the world’s largest organic farmers’ cooperatives.

The Driftless Folk School, in lieu of having one physical campus, views the entire Driftless region as our extended campus.

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