Reframing Rural-Season 4, Episode 1

Reframing Rural is a documentary podcast that challenges mainstream stereotypes about rural places by introducing listeners to people, history and culture that don’t always get the spotlight. 

In Season One, creator Megan Torgerson, journeyed back to her home community of Dagmar, Montana (population 10) to tell stories from the farmers, ranchers, preachers, teachers, and oil and gas industry professionals who call it home. Season two curated interviews with professionals fostering vitality in their rural communities. Season three took more of an issues-based approach, examining rural gentrification and cultural extraction, food sovereignty, farm stress, family farm preservation and regenerative agriculture.

Season Four “Succession Stories” follows five Montana farm and ranch families as they navigate complex social and environmental factors while working to pass on their operations to the next generation. 

Episode One:

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.