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Reframing Rural

Reframing Rural

Released: 2025-11-17
© Tree Ring Records, LLC
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43 Episodes
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43 Episodes
Audio
Listen on Apple Podcasts
Released: 2025-11-17
© Tree Ring Records, LLC
Most Recent Episode
Succession Stories | 1 | A Diagnosis and a Deadline

Succession Stories | 1 | A Diagnosis and a Deadline

Time: 56:41
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, the Hammonds' story shows how one family's health scare catalyzed the difficult conversations about succession that many rural families avoid until it's too late.​
From urgent meetings with their lawyer and accountant, to long days spent side by side in the field, Howie and Andrea share what it took to move from uncertainty to a plan that keeps the family farm intact.
Episode ID: 1000736830144
GUID: fed3ade3-6289-499d-a956-913bc2cdf097
Release Date: 17/11/2025, 17:55:00

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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.

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