Reframing Rural

Reframing Rural's mission is to cultivate curiosity and conversation across geographic, class and cultural divides. Season 1: Coming Home, is set in the rural homeplace of host Megan Torgerson's youth, on the plains of far Northeast Montana. Season 2: Sowing Possibility, sows hope in the future of the rural West and Heartland through interviews with rural activists, academics, artists and entrepreneurs. Hosted and produced by Torgerson, this podcast uses conversation and storytelling to reframe the narrative on rural America.

Reframing Rural Update 01/25/2024

Season 3 Episode 10: Creator Roundtable: A Behind-the-Scenes Conversation with Reframing Rural’s Audio Engineer, Story Editor and Producer/Host 10/16/2023

Season 3 Episode 9: A Conversation with Grace Olmstead, author of "Uprooted: Recovering the Legacy of the Places We've Left Behind" 09/11/2023

Season 3 Episode 8: John Wicks: the Story of a Punk Rock Farmer and his Fight to Save the Future of Family Farming in Montana 07/24/2023

Season 3 Episode 7: Normalizing Mental Health Care in Agricultural Communities, Addressing Farm Stress & Restoring Wellbeing in Rural Montana 06/15/2023

Season 3 Episode 6: Winnett ACES: Strengthening Community & Keeping Ranchers on Working Lands 05/17/2023

Season 3 Bonus Episode: Developing Women Leaders for Montana’s Future 05/11/2023

Season 3 Episode 5: Latrice Tatsey & Danielle Antelope on Culturally-Specific and Climate-Smart Blackfeet Food Systems 03/24/2023

Season 3 Bonus Episode: Working Wild U “Wolves in the West: Defining the Problem” 02/07/2023

Season 3 Episode 4: Rural Gentrification in North Idaho 01/30/2023

Season 3 Episode 3: A Conversation with Kathleen McLaughlin on Class Inequality & Cultural Extraction in a Changing Montana 12/21/2022

Season 3 Bonus Episode: Stories for Action, "Strengthening Community in a Changing Montana" 12/21/2022

Season 3 Episode 2: Farm Succession in Northeast Montana 11/30/2022

Season 3 Episode 1: An interview with the "farmer's lawyer," Sarah Vogel 10/26/2022

Season 3 "Groundwork" Preview 10/12/2022

Bonus Episode: The Modern West 08/25/2022

Season 2 Episode 10: Emily Stifler Wolfe & Jason Thompson on "Common Ground" Montana Free Press Series(Part 2) 06/30/2022

Season 2 Episode 9: Emily Stifler Wolfe & Jason Thompson on "Common Ground" Montana Free Press Series(Part 1) 05/26/2022

Season 2 Episode 8: Randi Lynn Tanglen, PhD on Western American Literature and Public Humanities 04/28/2022

Season 2 Episode 7: Jeanie Alderson on the "Big Four" Meatpacking Monopoly 03/31/2022

Season 2 Episode 6: Ashley Hanson on Rural Cultural Work, Site-Specific Theater and Community Development 02/24/2022

Season 2 Episode 6: Ashley Hanson on Rural Cultural Work, Site-Specific Theater and Community Development 02/24/2022

Season 2 Season 5: Benya Kraus on Stewarding the Next Generation of Rural Leaders 01/27/2022

Season 2 Bonus Episode: Ed Roberson on Creating his Celebrated Podcast, Mountain & Prairie 01/14/2022

Season 2 Episode 4: Ben Winchester on Rural Brain Gain and Rural In-Migration 12/16/2021

Season 2 Episode 3: Miranda Moen on Rural Architectural Design and Norwegian-American Immigrant Architecture 11/30/2021

Season 2 Episode 2: Jake Bullinger on Challenging Rural-Urban Binaries and the Potential for Climate Resilience in Resource Economies 10/28/2021

Season 2 Bonus Episode: Red Ants Pants Music Festival 10/19/2021

Season 2 Episode 1: Sarah Calhoun on Rural Resiliency through Entrepreneurship and the Arts 09/30/2021

Season 2 Preview 09/14/2021