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Bonus | A New Angle: "Megan Torgerson is reframing rural" & "Rural vs. Urban with Trevor Brown"
Apr 28, 2026
1h 01m 58s
The Tilt of the World with Joe Wilkins, Author of "The Entire Sky"
Mar 31, 2026
57m 01s
Succession Stories | Bonus | Our Season Partner, Winnett ACES
Feb 25, 2026
1h 20m 41s
Succession Stories | Bonus | Megan's Family Succession Story
Jan 23, 2026
54m 45s
Succession Stories | Bonus | A Roadmap to Farm and Ranch Succession Planning
Dec 16, 2025
1h 29m 27s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4/28/26 | Bonus | A New Angle: "Megan Torgerson is reframing rural" & "Rural vs. Urban with Trevor Brown"✨ | rural issuesurban vs rural+4 | Megan TorgersonTrevor Brown | University of Montana College of BusinessCenter for Economy and Society at Johns Hopkins University+2 | — | ruralurban+6 | — | 1h 01m 58s | |
| 3/31/26 | The Tilt of the World with Joe Wilkins, Author of "The Entire Sky"✨ | rural communitiesfiction+4 | Joe Wilkins | The Entire Sky | Montanaeastern Montana | ruralfiction+5 | — | 57m 01s | |
| 2/25/26 | Succession Stories | Bonus | Our Season Partner, Winnett ACES✨ | community organizingranching+3 | — | Winnett ACES | WinnettMontana+1 | Winnett ACESMontana ranchers+3 | — | 1h 20m 41s | |
| 1/23/26 | Succession Stories | Bonus | Megan's Family Succession Story✨ | farm successionfamily stories+4 | Tanner Jorgensen | Jorgensens | Northeast Montana | farm successionNortheast Montana+5 | — | 54m 45s | |
| 12/16/25 | Succession Stories | Bonus | A Roadmap to Farm and Ranch Succession Planning✨ | succession planningfarming+4 | Dr. Marsha GoettingMichael Stolp+2 | MSU ExtensionAgWest Farm Credit+1 | — | succession planningfarming+6 | — | 1h 29m 27s | |
| 12/9/25 | Succession Stories | 5 | Back to Grass✨ | agricultureland stewardship+3 | Sig Pugrud | Winnett ACES | Petroleum CountyMontana | ranchinggrasslands+3 | — | 51m 42s | |
| 12/3/25 | Succession Stories | 4 | The Messy Middle✨ | succession planningfarming+4 | Jake Fritz | — | Chester, MontanaMontana | succession storiesfarming challenges+4 | — | 56m 13s | |
| 11/25/25 | Succession Stories | 3 | From Sand to Soil✨ | regenerative agriculturefamily succession+3 | Ryan BruskiAbbey Bruski | — | Ekalaka, Montana | regenerative grazingmulti-generational ranch+3 | — | 1h 07m 27s | |
| 11/20/25 | Succession Stories | 2 | My Way or the Highway✨ | succession planningranching+3 | Gene Curry | Curry Cattle Company | — | successionranch life+3 | — | 50m 18s | |
| 11/17/25 | Succession Stories | 1 | A Diagnosis and a Deadline✨ | succession planningfamily farm+3 | Howie HammondAndrea Hammond | — | Milk River ValleyMontana | succession storiesfamily ranch+3 | — | 56m 41s | |
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| 11/4/25 | ![]() Succession Stories | Bonus | Cowboy Poet, Jim Hamilton reads "The Changing of the Guard" | 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 Guard." | — | ||||||
| 10/27/25 | ![]() Succession Stories | Preview | 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 considerations of farm and ranch transition, lay a wellspring of stories that do not often surface in conventional planning discussions. In Season Four, Reframing Rural will unearth the stories laying beneath the logistics, stories from families navigating complex social and environmental factors as they work to preserve their agricultural way of life. | — | ||||||
| 1/23/25 | ![]() A New Season of Reframing Rural is in the Works | Megan has come back from maternity leave and is working with Winnett ACES on a new podcast season! | — | ||||||
| 1/25/24 | ![]() A Note from Megan | Megan has some big life news to share and is working with collaborators on the creative direction of the fourth season! | — | ||||||
| 10/16/23 | ![]() Groundwork | 10 | Creator Roundtable: A Behind-the-Scenes Conversation with Reframing Rural's Audio Engineer, Story Editor and Producer/Host | In this final installment of Season 3 "Groundwork," Reframing Rural founder, host and producer, Megan Torgerson speaks with the podcast's audio engineer, Aaron Spieldenner and story editor, Mary Auld about the inspiration behind the season and all the work that goes into producing the show's long-form narrative episodes. | — | ||||||
| 9/11/23 | ![]() Groundwork | 9 | A Conversation with Grace Olmstead, author of "Uprooted: Recovering the Legacy of the Places We've Left Behind" | Grace Olmstead is the West's preeminent author on place. In her book "Uprooted: Recovering the Legacy of the Places We've Left Behind" and in this interview, she speaks to rural outmigration, connection to place, the history of how agriculture was industrialized and the future of agriculture in the West amid suburban sprawl and a call to build more just and resilient regional food systems. | — | ||||||
| 7/24/23 | ![]() Groundwork | 8 | John Wicks: the Story of a Punk Rock Farmer and his Fight to Save the Future of Family Farming in Montana | At 21 John Wicks was faced with the decision to stay in college or come home and save his family's farm. Today he is a leader in Montana's organic and regenerative farming movement and an advocate for family farms across the state, serving as the associate director of Montana Farmers Union. Together with his friends Peyton Cole and Paul Neubauer, John is helping further the understanding that the health of our agricultural lands impacts the health of our communities. | — | ||||||
| 6/15/23 | ![]() Groundwork | 7 | Normalizing Mental Health Care in Agricultural Communities, Addressing Farm Stress & Restoring Wellbeing in Rural Montana | Dr. Alison Brennan, MSU Extension's designated mental health specialist, Courtney Brown Kibblewhite with Northern Ag Network and Beyond the Weather, and wellness coach and rancher Lisa Williams discuss mental health resources and stigma around mental health in Montana's rural and agricultural communities. This episode spans data on farm stress, free counseling services for Montana producers and actionable tips for restoring balance and wellbeing to our lives. | — | ||||||
| 5/17/23 | ![]() Groundwork | 6 | Winnett ACES: Strengthening Community & Keeping Ranchers on Working Lands | In Winnett, the only town in the least populated county in Montana, out-of-state absentee land ownership poses a threat to the future of ranching and the preservation of the region's intact prairie ecosystem. To keep people on the land and build a vibrant future for Winnett's main street, the rancher-led nonprofit Winnett ACES is furthering economic and environmental sustainability for Petroleum Co. through local grassroots organizing. | — | ||||||
| 5/11/23 | ![]() Groundwork | Bonus | Developing Women Leaders for Montana's Future | This bonus episode features a webinar recorded for the Women's Foundation of Montana, June 2022. "Developing Leaders for Montana's Future" was a virtual conversation about the landscape of women's leadership in the state featuring leaders who've advanced opportunities for young rural women, Montana women business owners and students privileged to experience the perspective-shifting adventure of an international exchange. This panel featured Deena Mansour, the executive director of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center at the University of Montana, Suzi Berget White, the former business development director of Prospera Business Network and Shannon Stober, the lead facilitator of the Red Ants Pants Foundation's Girls Leadership Program. | — | ||||||
| 3/24/23 | ![]() Groundwork | 5 | Latrice Tatsey & Danielle Antelope on Culturally-Specific and Climate-Smart Blackfeet Food Systems | The convergence of mountain and prairie ecosystems along the Rocky Mountain Front is the awe-inspiring backdrop of the Blackfeet Nation, home of the Amskapi Piikani, or Blackfeet, for time immemorial. Latrice Tatsey, a rancher and cultural land ecologist with Piikani Lodge Health Institute, and Danielle Antelope, a teacher of wild plant medicines and the executive director of FAST Blackfeet, have long braided their lives into the cycles of this wild and tender land. This episode explores their respective food sovereignty initiatives, how they're helping people regain comfortability on the land, thrive in the face of climate change and restore balance to the plant, animal, land and human communities on the Blackfeet Nation. | — | ||||||
| 2/7/23 | ![]() Groundwork | Bonus | Working Wild U "Wolves in the West: Defining the Problem" | In this bonus episode from Working Wild U, a podcast by Montana State University Extension and Western Landowners Alliance, hosts Jared Beaver and Alex Few explore how people's values impact how they think about wolves and land use in the West. | — | ||||||
| 1/30/23 | ![]() Groundwork | 4 | Rural Gentrification in North Idaho | The small North Idaho town of Dover has seen the extraction of timber, cheap labor and the natural amenities that draw tourists and second home owners with high-incomes and high-expectations for the luxuries they're accustomed to. What happens to the natural environment and community cohesion when developers build with higher-income-earners and with profits in mind? What happens to locals when they are priced out or culturally displaced? In this immersive episode, host Megan Torgerson brings listeners to the shores of the Pend Oreille River, the center of Kalispel's homeland for 10,000 years, where she interviews longtime residents, local historians and Dr. Ryanne Pilgeram whose book "Pushed Out: Contested Development and Rural Gentrification in the US West" uses Dover as a case study for how corporations cause destruction in order to profit from spaces with abundant natural beauty. | — | ||||||
| 12/21/22 | ![]() Groundwork | 3 | Kathleen McLaughlin on Class Inequality & Cultural Extraction in a Changing Montana | Montana has long held a distinctive place within the mythos of America. Today, it's becoming an ever-more attractive destination for those in search of a stronger sense of community, or an escape, in response to a dizzying and hyper-digital world. In this honest conversation with award-winning, Butte-based journalist, Kathleen McLaughlin, Reframing Rural explores what an influx of wealthy newcomers means for housing access and affordability, open spaces and community cohesion, and how new and established residents of all class backgrounds can work together to create a place where all Montanans can thrive. | — | ||||||
| 12/21/22 | ![]() Groundwork | Bonus | Stories for Action: "Strengthening Community in a Changing Montana" | In this bonus episode Stories for Action podcast host Lara Tomov explores how the pressures of rapid growth and development are affecting Montanans, and how community groups like Trust Montana, Successful Gardiner and Reimagining Rural are working to maintain vibrant communities where all Montanans can thrive. | — | ||||||
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