If you’re on the hunt for great audio storytelling from rural America, look no further. You don’t want to miss these rural podcasts from our team at the Daily Yonder, plus some other favorites from our rural friends and colleagues around the country.
Featured Rural Podcasts
The Yonder Report
The Yonder Report is a short, fast-paced roundup of rural news, featuring a wide variety of rural voices. New episodes of the podcast release every Wednesday. The show can also be heard on radio stations across rural America. The Yonder Report is a joint production of the Daily Yonder and Public News Service. Learn more and listen now.
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Rural Remix
Rural Remix is your source for a deeper, richer story about life in rural places. Each episode spotlights unexpected rural stories and pushes back on stereotypes and misconceptions surrounding rural communities. Rural Remix is a co-production of the Daily Yonder and the Rural Assembly, both projects of the nonprofit Center for Rural Strategies. Learn more and listen now.
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The Pickle Shelf Radio Hour
A storytelling podcast from Lost Creek Farm and the Daily Yonder. Stories from the field, pickled for posterity. Conversations from around the table. A storytelling podcast that’s not just about food, and not just about rural places. From hosts Mike Costello, chef at Lost Creek Farm, and Jan Pytalski, associate editor at the Daily Yonder. Learn more and listen now.
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The Rural Impact
The Rural Impact is a podcast that connects the dots between policy and rural everything. Hear from problem solvers, advocates, storytellers, and policy pros, who creator and host Michelle Rathman asks to help sort out the complexity of critically important issues and dial into the details that listeners will appreciate learning and understanding.
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Coming to Terms with Housing and Homelessness in Rural Places with Elizabeth Carpenter-Song, Ph.D – The Rural Impact
Rural Matters
Rural Matters is a biweekly, 30-minute podcast about rural education, business, and health. The podcast’s mission is to increase awareness, inform discussion, and expand the dialogue on the most important issues facing rural stakeholders every day.
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The Legacy of Poverty in Disadvantaged Rural Communities With the University of Michigan’s Luke Shaefer – Rural Matters
Rural is Cool
After growing up in a very small town, Mike Tabbert swore he would never move back home. Fast forward 20 years, a handful of big cities, and a road trip through the rural Midwest, he lives seven miles from his home town in the middle of a corn field. In this podcast we will discuss why people choose to live in rural areas. What is great and what can be improved upon, all while exploring why Rural Is Cool.
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Wonder Less, Wandermore with Seth Varner – Rural Is Cool
Positively No Outlet
Our goal is to bring you stories from rural America — from the fly-over places that are far from the hot light of the national media. Stories of ordinary people doing ordinary and sometimes extraordinary things. The idea for the podcast came from our host, George Wood, after he took a trip during the summer of 2020. While on the road he met people whose stories were fascinating and not often told.
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Good Food Doing Good – Positively No Outlet
Rural Health Leadership Radio
Rural Health Leadership Radio is all about sharing best practices. Our mission is to improve the world by engaging rural health leaders in conversations, learning and research. Most rural leaders are rural health leaders with a shared goal of a culture of health and well-being within their rural communities.
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400: A Conversation with Kristin Juliar – Rural Health Leadership Radio™
Rural America and Covid-19
The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed an old but unspoken truth—that there are two Americas in health care, the developed world of much of urban and academic medicine and the developing world of rural health care. This podcast will explore how the pandemic has affected healthcare in rural America and what we can do to make things better. Hosted by rural rheumatologist Eyal Kedar.
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Advanced practice providers, COVID-19, and the development of a better rural healthcare system: A Conversation With Sara Mohaddes – Rural America and COVID-19
I Am A Rural Teacher
This is the “I Am a Rural Teacher” Podcast: A project of the Rural Schools Collaborative. My name is Julia Levine. Over the past year, I’ve been traveling around the country talking with rural teachers. Now, we’re taking things virtual. Please join us as we explore what it means to be a rural teacher from six different perspectives around the country.
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Kim McCully-Mobley – Aurora, MO – I Am A Rural Teacher
The Rural Voice: The National Rural Education Association Official Podcast
Welcome to the official podcast of the National Rural Education Association called the Rural Voice. Co-Hosted by Drs. Allen Pratt, Jared Bigham, and Christopher F. Silver, they discuss the common themes and experiences facing teachers, parents, and administrators in elementary and secondary rural education.
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S04E02 – Computer Science in Rural Education Curriculum, an Interview with Ms. Karen Mix – National Rural Education Association Official Podcast
Areas of Agreement
One of the most dangerous divisions in the United States is between urban and rural communities. The urban-rural divide runs deep. Resentment is widespread, and clashes over politics and culture can turn violent. One nonpartisan organization, Urban Rural Action, is trying to bridge the divide. This series examines a multiyear effort to help people on both sides build relationships, find common ground and take on systemic problems that impact everyone.
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Episode 12: Bridging Generational Divides and Rebuilding Trust – Areas of Agreement
Desert Oracle Radio
Desert Oracle Radio is a weekly road trip through the weird American desert from the publisher of Desert Oracle, the pocket-sized field guide published in Joshua Tree, California. Hear tales of mysterious lights, missing tourists, lost mines, venomous creatures, weird history and weirder people. Hosted by editor Ken Layne and featuring a cast of intriguing mystics, oddballs, scientists and artists, Desert Oracle Radio is your soundtrack for a desert night.
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Materia Medica: On expedition with botanist-surgeon John Milton Bigelow – Desert Oracle Radio
Startup Colorado
This fall, we’re hitting the road with a brand new season of the Startup Colorado podcast. Join us as we visit entrepreneurs and small business owners throughout the state, from outdoor industry startups to tech founders. We’ll explore the biggest challenges and opportunities rural entrepreneurs are facing in today’s evolving business landscape.
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Town Hall: How Love of Community Led to an Adventure in Entrepreneurship – The Startup Colorado Podcast
The Growing Small Towns Show
The Growing Small Towns Show is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to sharing the best of what’s working to help people in small towns grow. Each episode features small-town thought leaders, business owners, and people doing their part to make their community a place they love to call home. Hosted by small-town champion and rural entrepreneur Rebecca Undem.
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