Woodshire Studio
Contemplating the Places We Love, the Future We're Building, and the Lives We're Living
A place to think carefully, care deeply, and stay curious.
Six enduring focus areas — and three ongoing series — that define the intellectual center of Woodshire Studio. Care is the thread that runs through all of them.
Books, Ideas & Cultural Life
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Reading for Resilience: Books That Rebuild How You See the World
Ideas, Health, Place, and Practical Civic Imagination
Woodshire Studio is the professional and publishing platform of Julia Henley — writer, designer, and civic thinker rooted in the Driftless and Great Lakes region. The work here spans sustainability, community resilience, water, the built environment, and the books that take you further.
About Julia & the Studio →Perspectives from writers, planners, and practitioners in the field
Ecology
Listening to the Land: Reflections from a Wisconsin Prairie
Standing in tallgrass with wind moving through the stems, Gary Kurtz reflects on prairie restoration, Indigenous stewardship, and the quiet act of learning to listen — to the land, and to each other.
Guest essay by Gary Kurtz
Community
Water, Capitalism and the Choices We Make
Water is a perfect test of the balance between private gain and public cost. From frac sand mining in Winona County to the Gulf dead zone, the math of who pays — and who profits — is never abstract.
Guest essay by Jason Gilman, AICP — JBG Planning LLC