Applied Ruralism

Hi Neighbor, Rural places run on relationships. People depend on each other in more ways than you can count, and those connections form a web that holds a whole community together. It'

Fishing trips don't make it into the data

Hi Neighbor, Vastine Allen takes her grandkids fishing for bass and crappie in Osceola Lake. She grows okra and green beans and cucumbers in her garden and cans what she can before the

The work behind the work

Hi Neighbor, There's a version of a clean energy story that gets told a lot. A small town installs solar panels. A family upgrades their furnace. Energy bills go down. Everyone

Naming loss, holding hope: lessons on uncertainty

Hi Neighbor, There’s been a big question on our minds this past year: How do we make the case for investment when hope can feel fragile and when public funding feels politically