Oct 1, 20261h 1m
Sitting in the shade at the 4th annual Old Salt Festival in Helmville, Montana, Megan Torgerson interviews Amber Smith and Jaimie Stoltzfus about their journeys into ranching and motherhood. Amber and Jaimie are both...
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Reframing Rural
Hosted by Megan Torgerson · society · EN
About this Podcast:
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
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What is Reframing Rural about?
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.
Who hosts Reframing Rural?
Reframing Rural is hosted by Megan Torgerson. The show has published 56 episodes to date.
What has Reframing Rural covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Bonus | Live from Old Salt Festival with Amber Smith and Jaimie Stoltzfus" (1 October 2026, 61 minutes), "Bonus | The Obit Project: Obituary for a Small Town" (28 July 2026, 38 minutes), and "Bonus | Nature Breaking: America is Losing its Grasslands, Why it Matters" (1 July 2026, 33 minutes).
How often does Reframing Rural publish?
Reframing Rural publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 47 minutes across 56 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Reframing Rural?
Booking probability for Reframing Rural is 33%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Reframing Rural requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Reframing Rural's contact route on record: verified email.
Who should pitch Reframing Rural?
The strongest fits for Reframing Rural are Other Crop Farming and Crop Farming Services. Reframing Rural has a society audience.
About the host
Megan Torgerson hosts Reframing Rural, a society podcast with 56 episodes published.
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Reframing Rural
Bonus | The Obit Project: Obituary for a Small Town
Jul 28, 202638 minS4This episode about Megan Torgerson's hometown - Dagmar, Montana - originally aired on The Obit Project podcast and on Montana Public Radio, summer 2026. The audio obituary for Dagmar (in-town population: 10), asks how...
- Jul 1, 202633 minS4
In collaboration with the World Wildlife Fund's Nature Breaking podcast, we're bringing you a conversation between Nature Breaking host Seth Larson and vice president of WWF's Great Plains program, Martha Kaufmann. In...
Reframing Rural
Succession Stories | Bonus | Country Musician Sterling Drake Tackles the Rural Mental Health Conversation
May 26, 202658 minS4<p>Sterling Drake is a musician from Philipsburg, Montana, who is using his platform to talk about mental health in agricultural communities. In effort to destigmatize the topic and connect people to resources, Sterling...
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Bonus | A New Angle: "Megan Torgerson is reframing rural" & "Rural vs. Urban with Trevor Brown"
Apr 28, 20261h 2mS0<p>We've teamed up with A New Angle podcast to bring you two back to back episodes from their show hosted by Justin Angle a professor at the University of Montana College of Business. The first episode features an...
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Succession Stories | Bonus | The Tilt of the World with Joe Wilkins, Author of "The Entire Sky"
Mar 31, 202657 minS4<p >In this companion episode to our "Succession" season, Megan sits down with author Joe Wilkins to explore the pressures facing rural communities and how fiction can help us understand them more deeply.</p> <p >Joe's...
- Feb 25, 20261h 21mS4
<p >Megan shares an update from Winnett ACES since her first reporting trip to Winnett, three years ago, then re-airs the season three episode "Winnett ACES: Strengthening Community & Keeping Ranchers on Working Lands."...
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Succession Stories | Bonus | Megan's Family Succession Story
Jan 23, 202655 minS4<p>From the archives, we bring you Megan's family succession story "Farm Succession in Northeast Montana," the season three story of Megan's dad Russ Torgerson's retirement. In this episode, Megan shares the intimate...
- Dec 16, 20251h 29mS4
<p>You've heard the stories of succession planning from families around Montana this season, and now you're ready to start thinking about succession planning for your own family's farm or ranch. In this bonus episode...
Episode #5
Succession Stories | 5 | Back to Grass
Dec 9, 202552 minS4<p >Sig Pugrud's ranch sits on a high bench above Flatwillow Creek, in one of the least-populated counties in the United States. Her family homesteaded in Petroleum County, Montana in 1910, surviving drought, the Dust...
- Dec 3, 202556 minS4
When Jake Fritz moved back home at 19, four generations were trying to make a living off the same acres northwest of Chester, Montana. With no succession plan from the senior generation, Jake's mother Dena and her...
- Nov 25, 20251h 7mS4
<p >In the beaver flats outside Ekalaka, Montana, Ryan and Abbey Bruski are upending convention on their multi-generational ranch. After realizing that their traditional cow-calf model wasn't working for the land or the...
- Nov 20, 202550 minS4
<p> When Valier rancher Gene Curry began planning the future of Curry Cattle Company, he approached succession with the same drive that helped him build his operation from a patchwork of leased pastures and foreclosure...
- Nov 17, 202557 minS4
<p >When Howie Hammond learned he might only have months to live, he and his daughter Andrea had to make quick decisions about the future of their family's farm and ranch. In the Milk River Valley of northern Montana...
- Nov 11, 202557 minS4
<p >When Howie Hammond learned he might only have months to live, he and his daughter Andrea had to make quick decisions about the future of their family's farm and ranch. In the Milk River Valley of northern Montana...
Episode #1
A Diagnosis and a Deadline
Nov 11, 202557 minS4<p>When Howie Hammond learned he might only have months to live, he and his daughter Andrea had to make quick decisions about the future of their family's farm and ranch. In the Milk River Valley of northern Montana...
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Succession Stories | Bonus | Cowboy Poet, Jim Hamilton reads "The Changing of the Guard"
Nov 4, 20256 minS4<p>Curious to know the man behind the deep voice we heard at the beginning of Reframing Rural's Season Four preview? That's cowboy poet, Jim Hamilton. Here he is reading his poem about succession, "The Changing of the...
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Succession Stories | Preview
Oct 27, 20256 minS4<p >Aging farmer demographics, rising land values and farm stress are creating a challenging environment for the successful transfer of farms and ranches to the next generation. Behind the legal, financial and familial...
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A New Season of Reframing Rural is in the Works
Jan 23, 20252 minS4<p>Megan has come back from maternity leave and is working with Winnett ACES on a new podcast season!</p>
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A note from Megan
Jan 25, 20243 minS0<p>Megan has some big life news to share and is working with collaborators on the creative direction of the fourth season!</p>
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Jaimie Stoltzfus
COO, P Bar Ranch and Cowgirl Meat Company
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Megan Torgerson
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Trevor Brown
Head Educational Director for LifeBase Nutrition Technology System, John Glenn College of Public Affairs at Ohio State University
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Joe Wilkins
policy and advocacy manager, The Wildlife Trusts
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