- 56
- Episodes
- 10
- Transcribed
- 97
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About Reframing Rural
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.
- Publisher
- Megan Torgerson
- Category
- society & culture · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 21 Feb 2020
- Latest episode
- 1 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
10 of 56 episodes have a transcript.
1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Bonus | Live from Old Salt Festival with Amber Smith and Jaimie Stoltzfus
28 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Obituary for a Small Town
1 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Bonus | Nature Breaking: America is Losing its Grasslands – Why it Matters
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Bonus | Live from Old Salt Festival with Amber Smith and Jaimie Stoltzfus
Published 1 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I'd love to give some airtime to Cowgirl Meat Company, too, and hear the story behind why you wanted to start your own meat label, and yeah. Yeah, so that wasn't ever in the plan, but... Is it ever? So, I started Call Girl Meek in 2014. We just had our son, and it just really struck me of, oh my goodness, now I have to feed this child, and what am I going to feed it? All this pressure, and it just really got me down that rabbit hole of our food and our food system. And so I was very determined to raise all of our own protein. I was very ambitious. And we already had cattle. And so I wanted to raise pigs and chicken and truly have all of our own protein. […]
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- Amber Smith
- Jaimie Stoltzfus
- Megan Torgerson
- Martha Kaufmann
- Sterling Drake
Reach and audience
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 75 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 22 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 17 / 100
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- Quality
- 14
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 51
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Who hosts Reframing Rural?
Megan host the show. Published by Megan Torgerson.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes monthly, based on its RSS feed.
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