Reframing Rural

Megan Torgerson

reframingrural@gmail.com

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Booking Overview

Reframing Rural is a documentary-style conversation series that challenges stereotypes about rural life—especially in the rural West and Heartland—through culture, history, agriculture, and community issues. For PR pros, it’s a strong platform for credible voices working on rural mental health, farm succession, Indigenous food systems, and regenerative agriculture.

Metrics

Episodes: 53

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

Instagram: 1.5k followers

Contact Information

reframingrural@gmail.com

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Host

Megan Torgerson - Writer, Montanan, and farmer’s daughter; founder of the award-winning documentary podcast Reframing Rural (since 2019). Her work focuses on challenging stigmas about rural places by centering worki...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
People with credibility tied to rural life and/or research and creative work addressing rural agriculture and community outcomes—e.g., authors/novelists with rural Montana roots, academics/post-doc researchers with rural-economy or rural-society expertise, rural leaders/artists/entrepreneurs advocating on rural mental health or agricultural transitions (including ranching/farming backgrounds).
Required Achievements:  
Published book or award-winning creative work connected to rural communities, Academic research and publications on rural vs. urban dynamics or rural institutions, Documented advocacy efforts around rural mental health stigma and resource access, Involvement in regenerative agriculture/Indigenous food system work or rural cultural projects

Recent Guest Discussions

Sterling Drake - Rural Mental Health, Destigmatization, Music As Public Communication, Balancing Ranching Career And Stage Career

Trevor Brown - Rural Vs. Urban Divide And Its Democratic Implications

Joe Wilkins - Rural Succession Pressures, Grief And Generational Change, Using Fiction To Understand Rural Community Forces

Recent Topics

Rural, Agriculture, Mental Health, Succession, Regenerative

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Reframing Rural
:

Succession Stories | Bonus | Country Musician Sterling Drake Tackles the Rural Mental Health Conversation

May 26, 2026

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 is talking about it in his lyrics and on the stage. Sterling and Megan met up in May 2025 at Live from the Divide in Bozeman. In addition to the impact he's making on the rural mental health crisis, the conversation ranges from how he simultaneously built a career as a rancher an...

Bonus | A New Angle: "Megan Torgerson is reframing rural" & "Rural vs. Urban with Trevor Brown"

April 28, 2026

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 interview with Megan Torgerson on Reframing Rural's origin story, our latest season, "Succession Stories," and "Mother Range," a short documentary film Megan co-produced that premiered at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in February. The second episode from A New Angle features Trevo...

Succession Stories | Bonus | The Tilt of the World with Joe Wilkins, Author of "The Entire Sky"

March 31, 2026

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. Joe's award-winning novel "The Entire Sky" follows a ranch family in eastern Montana navigating grief, generational change and the uncertain future of their land. Through these fictional characters, the novel offers a different way to think about succession and what happens when transition is de...

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