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In this special, off-script episode of the Ranch Stewards Podcast, host Haylie Shipp flips the mic and interviews Megan Torgerson, founder and host of Reframing Rural, an award-winning documentary podcast that centers the voices and lived experiences of rural people and places. Now in its fourth season, Reframing Rural is focused on succession planning, an issue deeply important to ranching families and to the Ranchers Stewardship Alliance.Haylie and Megan talk about how Reframing Rural got started, Megan's background growing up on a farm in northeast Montana, and why rural stories are so often misunderstood or oversimplified in mainstream media. They also dig into the emotional realities of succession planning including family dynamics, communication, legacy, and the weight of passing the baton.Following the conversation, listeners are invited to hear Episode 1 of Season 4 of Reframing Rural, an intimate and powerful story featuring Howie Hammond and his daughter Andrea Lien near Malta, Montana. The Hammond family are longtime supporters of the Ranchers Stewardship Alliance, and their story is one we hold especially dear.In This Episode You Will Hear:How Reframing Rural grew out of Megan's academic work and lived experienceWhat mainstream media often misses about agriculture and rural lifeThe real statistics and realities around farm and ranch successionWhy emotion, vulnerability, and storytelling are essential to succession conversationsThe diagnosis that accelerated the Hammond family's succession planningThe emotional weight of legal and financial meetings when time feels shortA daughter's fear of being the generation that loses the ranchWhy “equal is not always fair” and why the ranch has to come firstGuest BiosMegan Torgerson Megan is the founder and host of Reframing Rural, an award-winning documentary podcast sharing nuanced stories of rural people and places. She grew up on a farm and ranch near Dagmar, Montana, and began the podcast in 2019 to challenge oversimplified narratives about rural life. Reframing Rural is now in its fourth season.Howie Hammond Howie has farmed and ranched for more than 45 years in Montana's Milk River Valley near Malta. Alongside his wife JoAnn, he built a family operation spanning thousands of acres of rangeland and cropland. Following a rare muscle disease diagnosis, Howie became a vocal advocate for early succession planning and mentors families across Montana.Andrea Lien Andrea manages Hammond Ranch with her husband Wyatt and her parents Howie and JoAnn. After earning a business degree from Rocky Mountain College and working in finance, she returned home to continue her family's agricultural legacy.The Ranchers Stewardship Alliance (RSA) is a rancher-led, grassroots organization, dedicated to improving the quality of life for rural communities throughout the Northern Great Plains. Through collaborative conservation projects, rancher education events, and local community outreach, RSA works to strengthen our rural community, economy, and culture for generations to come.For more on the Ranchers Stewardship Alliance, head to www.RanchStewards.org and follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Your feedback is always welcome. Email info@ranchstewards.org. Want to support our mission? Visit https://ranchstewards.charityproud.org/Donate.
World Footprints travels through Eastern Montana and explores the history and diversity of Big Sky Country's eastern border. Today we'll fulfill a "need for speed" when we go drag car racing at Phillips County Motor Sports Dragstrip in Malta with racing champions Shaun and Dillion Carnahan. We'll travel along the vast landscape of the Hammond Ranch where some of the most significant dinosaur discoveries have been made. From Malta we'll head south to Billings and go behind the scenes at the Dino Lab where prehistoric creatures are restored fossil-by-fossil. Finally, we'll visit the elegant Moss Mansion former home to Billings founder Preston Boyd Moss. We'll learn how Moss' vision for Billings and his world travels influenced the city's growth and his home's design.
Special Edition of Bard’s Logic - Friday Join us as we welcome Bruce Doucette, Superior Court Judge for the Continental United States, as he brings us up to date on the Hammond Ranch situation in Oregon. Judge Doucette will tell us what the Common Law Grand Jury and militia is about to do. Like the Bundy Ranch in Nevada, the national militia will be called up by a grand jury to deal with the feds. Also, learn of the “original” 13th Amendment. Special Edition Date and Time: 10:00 pm (EST) Friday night - 2/12/’16. Check out the Show's website at: http://www.bardslogicpoliticaltalk.com Join us and BE a Part of the Show by joining Our Round Table Discussion. The earlier you call in, the longer you'll stay on. This show is Your show, the People's Show. The purpose of Bards Logic is to send out information important to you the Grassroots and help you to get involved. Send the host a message via the website's contact page to let me know what topic you want to hear discussed. Links from the Show: http://vimeo.com/154777087 Please Remember to Share this Link, Follow us on BlogTalkRadio, and Like our Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/BardsLogicPoliticalTalk Bards Logic is the Grassroots, We the People Show. #PJNET
What is actually behind the Hammond Family abuse by the Federal Government? You know, YOUR government! YOUR Representatives that YOU elected to REPRESENT YOU AND YOUR WISHES.... They, and by proxy WE are doing this to an otherwise AWESOME Family.... How are YOU with that? I answer, in this VERY powerful and IN YOUR FACE broadcast, all the questions you might have... Well, I won't solve for world peace, but, almost every question... Listen in and maybe YOU can help?!?!?
Tonight, we interview Joseph Rice of the Oathkeepers, Oregon 3% and Pacific Patriots Northwest. Mr. Rice, an army veteran, will discuss the incident regarding Hammond Ranch, and the current situation of what many are calling a "Armed Militia" occupying the BLM in Oregon.
Tonight, we interview Joseph Rice of the Oathkeepers, Oregon 3% and Pacific Patriots Northwest. Mr. Rice, an army veteran, will discuss the incident regarding Hammond Ranch, and the current situation of what many are calling a "Armed Militia" occupying the BLM in Oregon.
World Footprints travels through Eastern Montana and explores the history and diversity of Big Sky Country's eastern border. Today we'll fulfill a "need for speed" when we go drag car racing at Phillips County Motor Sports Dragstrip in Malta with racing champions Shaun and Dillion Carnahan. We'll travel along the vast landscape of the Hammond Ranch where some of the most significant dinosaur discoveries have been made. From Malta we'll head south to Billings and go behind the scenes at the Dino Lab where prehistoric creatures are restored fossil-by-fossil. Finally, we'll visit the elegant Moss Mansion former home to Billings founder Preston Boyd Moss. We'll learn how Moss' vision for Billings and his world travels influenced the city's growth and his home's design.
World Footprints travels through Eastern Montana and explores the history and diversity of Big Sky Country's eastern border. Today we'll fulfill a "need for speed" when we go drag car racing at Phillips County Motor Sports Dragstrip in Malta with racing champions Shaun and Dillion Carnahan. We'll travel along the vast landscape of the Hammond Ranch where some of the most significant dinosaur discoveries have been made. From Malta we'll head south to Billings and go behind the scenes at the Dino Lab where prehistoric creatures are restored fossil-by-fossil. Finally, we'll visit the elegant Moss Mansion former home to Billings founder Preston Boyd Moss. We'll learn how Moss' vision for Billings and his world travels influenced the city's growth and his home's design.
In honor of the Smithsonian Museum's newest T-Rex resident, World Footprints travels through Eastern Montana and explores the history and diversity of Big Sky Country's eastern border. Today we'll fulfill a "need for speed" when we go drag car racing at Phillips County Motor Sports Dragstrip in Malta with racing champions Shaun and Dillion Carnahan. We'll travel along the vast landscape of the Hammond Ranch where some of the most significant dinosaur discoveries have been made. From Malta we'll head south to Billings and go behind the scenes at the Dino Lab where prehistoric creatures are restored fossil-by-fossil. Finally, we'll visit the elegant Moss Mansion former home to Billings founder Preston Boyd Moss. We'll learn how Moss' vision for Billings and his world travels influenced the city's growth and his home's design.
World Footprints travels through Eastern Montana and explores the history and diversity of Big Sky Country's eastern border. Today we'll fulfill a "need for speed" when we go drag car racing at Phillips County Motor Sports Dragstrip in Malta with racing champions Shaun and Dillion Carnahan. We'll travel along the vast landscape of the Hammond Ranch where some of the most significant dinosaur discoveries have been made. From Malta we'll head south to Billings and go behind the scenes at the Dino Lab where prehistoric creatures are restored fossil-by-fossil. Finally, we'll visit the elegant Moss Mansion former home to Billings founder Preston Boyd Moss. We'll learn how Moss' vision for Billings and his world travels influenced the city's growth and his home's design.
World Footprints travels through Eastern Montana and explores the history and diversity of Big Sky Country's eastern border. Today we'll fulfill a "need for speed" when we go drag car racing at Phillips County Motor Sports Dragstrip in Malta with racing champions Shaun and Dillion Carnahan. We'll travel along the vast landscape of the Hammond Ranch where some of the most significant dinosaur discoveries have been made. From Malta we'll head south to Billings and go behind the scenes at the Dino Lab where prehistoric creatures are restored fossil-by-fossil. Finally, we'll visit the elegant Moss Mansion former home to Billings founder Preston Boyd Moss. We'll learn how Moss' vision for Billings and his world travels influenced the city's growth and his home's design.