Reframing Rural

By Megan Torgerson

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Episodes: 52

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Reframing Rural is the award-winning documentary podcast founded in 2019 by writer, Montanan and farmer's daughter, Megan Torgerson. Reframing Rural does the much needed work of challenging stigmas about rural places by introducing listeners to working people, history and culture that don't always get the spotlight. Season 1 transports listeners to Torgerson's rural homeplace, a tight-knit agricultural community on the plains of far Northeast Montana. Season 2 sows hope in the future of the rural West and Heartland through interviews with rural activists, academics, artists and entrepreneurs. Season 3 combines narrative episodes with interviews to probe the status quo of agriculture, explore farm stress and the need for rural mental health care, the familial challenges of farm and ranch succession planning, the Indigenous roots of regenerative agriculture and the threats of rural gentrification and cultural extraction. Season 4 shares the stories of five Montana farm and ranch families navigating the transition to the next generation.

Episode Date
Bonus | A New Angle: "Megan Torgerson is reframing rural" & "Rural vs. Urban with Trevor Brown"
Apr 28, 2026
The Tilt of the World with Joe Wilkins, Author of "The Entire Sky"
Mar 31, 2026
Succession Stories | Bonus | Our Season Partner, Winnett ACES
Feb 25, 2026
Succession Stories | Bonus | Megan's Family Succession Story
Jan 23, 2026
Succession Stories | Bonus | A Roadmap to Farm and Ranch Succession Planning
Dec 16, 2025
Succession Stories | 5 | Back to Grass
Dec 09, 2025
Succession Stories | 4 | The Messy Middle
Dec 03, 2025
Succession Stories | 3 | From Sand to Soil
Nov 25, 2025
Succession Stories | 2 | My Way or the Highway
Nov 20, 2025
Succession Stories | 1 | A Diagnosis and a Deadline
Nov 17, 2025
Succession Stories | Bonus | Cowboy Poet, Jim Hamilton reads "The Changing of the Guard"
Nov 04, 2025
Succession Stories | Preview
Oct 27, 2025
A New Season of Reframing Rural is in the Works
Jan 23, 2025
A Note from Megan
Jan 25, 2024
Groundwork | 10 | Creator Roundtable: A Behind-the-Scenes Conversation with Reframing Rural's Audio Engineer, Story Editor and Producer/Host
Oct 16, 2023
Groundwork | 9 | A Conversation with Grace Olmstead, author of "Uprooted: Recovering the Legacy of the Places We've Left Behind"
Sep 11, 2023
Groundwork | 8 | John Wicks: the Story of a Punk Rock Farmer and his Fight to Save the Future of Family Farming in Montana
Jul 24, 2023
Groundwork | 7 | Normalizing Mental Health Care in Agricultural Communities, Addressing Farm Stress & Restoring Wellbeing in Rural Montana
Jun 15, 2023
Groundwork | 6 | Winnett ACES: Strengthening Community & Keeping Ranchers on Working Lands
May 17, 2023
Groundwork | Bonus | Developing Women Leaders for Montana's Future
May 11, 2023
Groundwork | 5 | Latrice Tatsey & Danielle Antelope on Culturally-Specific and Climate-Smart Blackfeet Food Systems
Mar 24, 2023
Groundwork | Bonus | Working Wild U "Wolves in the West: Defining the Problem"
Feb 07, 2023
Groundwork | 4 | Rural Gentrification in North Idaho
Jan 30, 2023
Groundwork | 3 | Kathleen McLaughlin on Class Inequality & Cultural Extraction in a Changing Montana
Dec 21, 2022
Groundwork | Bonus | Stories for Action: "Strengthening Community in a Changing Montana"
Dec 21, 2022
Groundwork | 2 | Farm Succession in Northeast Montana
Nov 30, 2022
Groundwork | 1 | An interview with the "farmer's lawyer," Sarah Vogel
Oct 26, 2022
Groundwork | Preview
Oct 12, 2022
Bonus | The Modern West
Aug 25, 2022
Sowing Possibility | 10 | Emily Stifler Wolfe & Jason Thompson on "Common Ground" Montana Free Press Series(Part 2)
Jun 30, 2022
Sowing Possibility | 9 | Emily Stifler Wolfe & Jason Thompson on "Common Ground" Montana Free Press Series(Part 1)
May 26, 2022
Sowing Possibility | 8 | Randi Lynn Tanglen, PhD on Western American Literature and Public Humanities
Apr 28, 2022
Sowing Possibility | 7 | Jeanie Alderson on the "Big Four" Meatpacking Monopoly
Mar 31, 2022
Sowing Possibility | 6 | Ashley Hanson on Rural Cultural Work, Site-Specific Theater and Community Development
Feb 24, 2022
Sowing Possibility | 6 | Ashley Hanson on Rural Cultural Work, Site-Specific Theater and Community Development
Feb 24, 2022
Sowing Possibility | 5 | Benya Kraus on Stewarding the Next Generation of Rural Leaders
Jan 27, 2022
Sowing Possibility | Bonus | Ed Roberson on Creating his Celebrated Podcast, Mountain & Prairie
Jan 14, 2022
Sowing Possibility | 4 | Ben Winchester on Rural Brain Gain and Rural In-Migration
Dec 16, 2021
Sowing Possibility | 3 | Miranda Moen on Rural Architectural Design and Norwegian-American Immigrant Architecture
Nov 30, 2021
Sowing Possibility | 2 | Jake Bullinger on Challenging Rural-Urban Binaries and the Potential for Climate Resilience in Resource Economies
Oct 28, 2021
Sowing Possibility | Bonus | Red Ants Pants Music Festival
Oct 19, 2021
Sowing Possibility | 1 | Sarah Calhoun on Rural Resiliency through Entrepreneurship and the Arts
Sep 30, 2021
Sowing Possibility | Preview
Sep 14, 2021
Coming Home | 7 | Patchwork Quilt, A Narrated Essay by Megan Torgerson
Jul 21, 2021
Coming Home | Bonus | The Modern West
May 31, 2021
Coming Home | 6 | A Mother's Day Celebration of Rural Womanhood
May 09, 2021
Coming Home | 5 | A Snapshot of Family Farming Amid Cycles of Modernization and Migration
Feb 19, 2021
Coming Home | 4 | Faith the Size of a Mustard Seed
Oct 13, 2020
Coming Home | 3 | Unearthing the Indigenous Narrative in Northeast Montana
Jul 30, 2020
Coming Home | 2 | The Scary Prairie Will Not Get the Best of Me
May 01, 2020
Coming Home | 1 | Preservation and Motherhood on the Northern Great Plains
Mar 06, 2020
Coming Home | Preview
Feb 21, 2020