https://barnraisingmedia.com/author/betsy-froiland/
Betsy Froiland is a Minneapolis-based freelance writer. Her work focuses on rural faith communities and is featured in the <em>Daily Yonder</em>.
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https://barnraisingmedia.com/forty-organizations-offer-a-plan-to-revitalize-rural-america/
Oct 30, 2025 - A new policy roadmap offers rural-led common-sense policy solutions to combat corporate greed, protect resources and help rural communities thrive.
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https://barnraisingmedia.com/disciples-of-white-jesus-disciples-of-trump/
Nov 20, 2025 - For her new book Disciples of White Jesus: The Radicalization of American Boyhood (Broadleaf Books, 2025), Denker again traversed the country. This time she...
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https://barnraisingmedia.com/reports/rural-perspectives-on-the-2024-election/
Jan 23, 2025 - Rural organizers and candidates offer perspectives on the 2024 election and what it means to ensure that rural America thrives.
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https://barnraisingmedia.com/how-we-lost-the-family-dairy/
Nov 13, 2025 - Since 2003, the United States has lost more than half of its dairy farms. Author Ryan Dennis has witnessed this loss firsthand.
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https://barnraisingmedia.com/author/suzanne-gordon/
Suzanne Gordon is a journalist, author, and editor, who has written extensively about health care work and policy issues.
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https://barnraisingmedia.com/author/robert-jackson-bennett/
Robert Jackson Bennett, 41, is the author of American Elsewhere, The Troupe, The Company Man, and Mr.
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https://barnraisingmedia.com/farm-aid-at-40-offers-a-lifeline-for-farmers-facing-the-worst-crisis-in-decades/
Oct 9, 2025 - Farm Aid marked its milestone anniversary benefit concert as family farmers face the worst economic crisis in decades.
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https://barnraisingmedia.com/author/dahna-chandler/
Dahna Chandler is an award-winning business and finance journalist with over 25 years of experience writing for media outlets and brands. She loves...
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https://barnraisingmedia.com/author/suzan-erem/
Suzan Erem is a fruit and nut farmer, working writer and community organizer in rural Cedar County, Iowa. Her Substack is Postcards from the Heartland. Her...
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https://barnraisingmedia.com/welcoming-the-wolf-at-the-door/
Nov 18, 2025 - By protecting endangered wolves, conservationists support a healthy environment. Yet the federal government now has wolves in its sights.
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https://barnraisingmedia.com/coal-country-thanksgiving/
Nov 27, 2025 - A Thanksgiving table in the Appalachian mountains did not try to impress anyone. It was there to feed any neighbor who walked in hungry.
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https://barnraisingmedia.com/category/native-life/
Stories about Indigenous communities, campaigns, art, work, rights, and more with reporting by Indigenous People
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https://barnraisingmedia.com/author/michael-chameides/
Michael Chameides is Rural Democracy Initiative’s Communications and Policy Director and supports a rural network to engage communities and advocate for...
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https://barnraisingmedia.com/reports/the-fight-to-regulate-pfas-and-other-forever-chemicals/
Sep 25, 2025 - PFAS can cause serious health problems and are of concern to rural people who live near farmland spread with municipal sewage sludge.
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https://barnraisingmedia.com/how-rural-post-offices-sustain-communities-then-and-now/
May 29, 2025 - The rural postal network serves as a living map of relationships and historical narratives, a legacy under threat by new austerity measures.
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https://barnraisingmedia.com/the-false-promises-of-va-privatization/
Oct 20, 2025 - Congress is funneling millions of dollars of VA money to private providers, claiming better access to care. Rural veterans disagree.
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https://barnraisingmedia.com/republicans-latest-gambit-to-deny-rural-veterans-health-care/
Nov 12, 2025 - A new bill would construct an alternative referral system that would incrementally defund and dismantle rural VA services, leaving rural veterans in the lurch.
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https://barnraisingmedia.com/author/wendell-berry/
Wendell Berry, poet, essayist and novelist, tends a farm with his wife Tanya near Port Royal, Kentucky.
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https://barnraisingmedia.com/category/environment/
Science and environmental reporting that allows for critical reflection about and action on the problems and opportunities in rural America
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https://barnraisingmedia.com/author/miles-macclure/
Miles MacClure is a writer based in Traverse City, Michigan. Most of his writing revolves around culture, politics, and technology.
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https://barnraisingmedia.com/author/sara-june-jo-saebo/
Sara June Jo-Sæbo has served on a rural Democratic committee.
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