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Reframing Rural — 56 episodes
The Obit Project: Obituary for a Small Town
Bonus | Nature Breaking: America is Losing its Grasslands – Why it Matters
Succession Stories | Bonus | Country Musician Sterling Drake Tackles the Rural Mental Health Conversation
Bonus | A New Angle: "Megan Torgerson is reframing rural" & "Rural vs. Urban with Trevor Brown"
Succession Stories | Bonus | The Tilt of the World with Joe Wilkins, Author of "The Entire Sky"
Succession Stories | Bonus | Our Season Partner, Winnett ACES
Succession Stories | Bonus | Megan's Family Succession Story
Succession Stories | Bonus | A Roadmap to Farm and Ranch Succession Planning
Succession Stories | 5 | Back to Grass
Succession Stories | 4 | The Messy Middle
Succession Stories | 3 | From Sand to Soil
Succession Stories | 2 | My Way or the Highway
Succession Stories | 1 | A Diagnosis and a Deadline
Succession Stories | Bonus | Cowboy Poet, Jim Hamilton reads "The Changing of the Guard"
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A New Season of Reframing Rural is in the Works
A Note from Megan
Groundwork | 10 | Creator Roundtable: A Behind-the-Scenes Conversation with Reframing Rural's Audio Engineer, Story Editor and Producer/Host
Groundwork | 9 | A Conversation with Grace Olmstead, author of "Uprooted: Recovering the Legacy of the Places We've Left Behind"
Groundwork | 8 | John Wicks: the Story of a Punk Rock Farmer and his Fight to Save the Future of Family Farming in Montana
Groundwork | 7 | Normalizing Mental Health Care in Agricultural Communities, Addressing Farm Stress & Restoring Wellbeing in Rural Montana
Groundwork | 6 | Winnett ACES: Strengthening Community & Keeping Ranchers on Working Lands
Groundwork | Bonus | Developing Women Leaders for Montana's Future
Groundwork | 5 | Latrice Tatsey & Danielle Antelope on Culturally-Specific and Climate-Smart Blackfeet Food Systems
Groundwork | Bonus | Working Wild U "Wolves in the West: Defining the Problem"
Groundwork | 4 | Rural Gentrification in North Idaho
Groundwork | 3 | Kathleen McLaughlin on Class Inequality & Cultural Extraction in a Changing Montana
Groundwork | Bonus | Stories for Action: "Strengthening Community in a Changing Montana"
Groundwork | 2 | Farm Succession in Northeast Montana
Groundwork | 1 | An interview with the "farmer's lawyer," Sarah Vogel
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Bonus | The Modern West
Sowing Possibility | 10 | Emily Stifler Wolfe & Jason Thompson on "Common Ground" Montana Free Press Series(Part 2)
Sowing Possibility | 9 | Emily Stifler Wolfe & Jason Thompson on "Common Ground" Montana Free Press Series(Part 1)
Sowing Possibility | 8 | Randi Lynn Tanglen, PhD on Western American Literature and Public Humanities
Sowing Possibility | 7 | Jeanie Alderson on the "Big Four" Meatpacking Monopoly
Sowing Possibility | 6 | Ashley Hanson on Rural Cultural Work, Site-Specific Theater and Community Development
Sowing Possibility | 5 | Benya Kraus on Stewarding the Next Generation of Rural Leaders
Sowing Possibility | Bonus | Ed Roberson on Creating his Celebrated Podcast, Mountain & Prairie
Sowing Possibility | 4 | Ben Winchester on Rural Brain Gain and Rural In-Migration
Sowing Possibility | 3 | Miranda Moen on Rural Architectural Design and Norwegian-American Immigrant Architecture
Sowing Possibility | 2 | Jake Bullinger on Challenging Rural-Urban Binaries and the Potential for Climate Resilience in Resource Economies
Sowing Possibility | Bonus | Red Ants Pants Music Festival
Sowing Possibility | 1 | Sarah Calhoun on Rural Resiliency through Entrepreneurship and the Arts
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Coming Home | 7 | Patchwork Quilt, A Narrated Essay by Megan Torgerson
Coming Home | Bonus | The Modern West
Coming Home | 6 | A Mother's Day Celebration of Rural Womanhood
Coming Home | 5 | A Snapshot of Family Farming Amid Cycles of Modernization and Migration
Coming Home | 4 | Faith the Size of a Mustard Seed
Coming Home | 3 | Unearthing the Indigenous Narrative in Northeast Montana
Coming Home | 2 | The Scary Prairie Will Not Get the Best of Me
Coming Home | 1 | Preservation and Motherhood on the Northern Great Plains
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