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How Do We Slow Down in a Fast Food Culture?
My mother has always been an incredibly slow eater. I say incredible because it is incredible, once you get over the frustration of it: she can sit down at a dinner table and not be done with her single plate until an hour later, approximately 58 minutes after everyone else at the table has finished eating.
New Clinic on a Reservation in Oregon Advances Tribal Sovereignty
A new public health clinic on the Grand Ronde reservation in rural Polk and Yamhill counties, Oregon, promises to address healthcare gaps and advance tribal sovereignty for the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. The clinic, which opened May 17, 2024, will offer preventative services like vaccines, dental care, and nutrition classes to bolster the overall wellbeing of tribal members.
Back to Appalachia
This story was originally published by Inquest. When being transported to prison, Cinquan “Umar” Muhammed said, most people try to take their mind off things through chatter. But he’s a quiet person, and in the nearly thirty years of his life he spent being shuffled between federal penitentiaries in rural mountain communities, he said he preferred to take the time he had outside the barbed wire to look out at the leafy wilderness that lined the road to his cell.
In a Sustained Drought, Water Solutions Grant Supports Agricultural Innovation in Rural Colorado
Walk into Pueblo Seed and Food Co on a Friday afternoon in Cortez, Colorado, and you’ll be met with a wall full of bread that looks a little different than bread at the supermarket. The Pueblo Brick, for instance, is a loaf made with rye flour, einkorn (an ancient grain), and blue corn, topped with seeds and nuts, and fermented for 30 hours. But the most unique part of Pueblo Seed and Food Co is that many of the grains that are milled and baked on the premises, are grown only a few miles from it.
Accidental Rancher: The Fussiest Season
It happens every spring. The best laid plans dashed by unpredictable weather, equipment malfunctions, illness, or most likely all three. But really, the truth behind why spring always gets crazy when you are working on a ranch or farm is that there’s more to do than can be done. Every year we must go through the charade that our chore list is doable, and every year we discover it is impossible, but that we must do it anyway.
Q&A: What is Heirs Property?
Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Like what you see here? You can join the mailing list at the bottom of this article and receive more conversations like this in your inbox each week.
Medicaid Unwinding Deals Blow to Tenuous System of Care for Native Americans
This story was originally published by KFF Health News. About a year into the process of redetermining Medicaid eligibility after the covid-19 public health emergency, more than 20 million people have been kicked off the joint federal-state program for low-income families. A chorus of stories recount the ways the unwinding...
Broken Promises and ‘Broken Justice’ in the Rust Belt
Editor’s Note: A version of this story first appeared in The Good, the Bad, and the Elegy, a newsletter from the Daily Yonder focused on the best, and worst, in rural media, entertainment, and culture. Every other Thursday, it features reviews, retrospectives, recommendations, and more. You can join the mailing list at the bottom of this article to receive future editions in your inbox.
State Poet Laureates Write Rural Into Their Rhyme Schemes
Recently, Barbara Smith’s son Jason was playing a game of pool with his buddies in Wyoming when he abruptly left the game to attend his mother’s poetry reading. “The other men came with him and they were surprised and I think happy to be there,” Smith recalls. “I don’t think they had been at a poetry reading before.”
‘Society of the Snow’ Shows Us How Far We’ll Go to Survive
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Keep It Rural, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Like what you see? Join the mailing list for more rural news, thoughts, and analysis in your inbox each week. Stripped of our most basic needs — water, food, shelter —...
Rural Victims of Intimate-Partner Violence Need More Resources and Support, Study Finds
While intimate-partner violence is a problem in all areas of the country, victims in rural communities need more resources and support, a new study has found. The study from the University of Minnesota’ Rural Health Research Center found that rural victims of intimate-partner violence, or IPV, face more barriers and resource limitations that could affect their health and well-being. Attempts to address intimate-partner violence in rural areas should be tailored to the specific needs of the people and places in those areas, the study said.
Can a Farm Generate Solar Power and Blueberries at Once?
This story was originally published by the Maine Monitor. Paul Sweetland brings a bucket-like object with him to work on a blueberry farm in Rockport — not to collect Maine’s hallmark fruit, but to protect his head. That’s because this farm is a little unusual: Looming over the...
Seven Community Colleges Selected for National Program to Improve Student Experience
The small community of Spindale in western North Carolina and the surrounding area was once known for its textile mills, offering generations of families a way to create a solid life for more than 100 years. Now, however, the area is home to more medium-sized companies in industries like healthcare...
Review: ‘Huckleberry Finn’ Retelling Wrestles With Writing, and Righting, Historical Wrongs
“If one knows hell as home,” Percival Everett’s Jim asks, “Is returning to hell a homecoming?” Everett’s novel James, a retelling of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, places Jim at the middle of the narrative, just as it tears the story apart from the center.
Q&A: Community Organizing in Rural South Texas
Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Like what you see here? You can join the mailing list at the bottom of this article and receive more conversations like this in your inbox each week.
Center for Rural Affairs Receives $62 Million Federal Grant to Provide Solar Power to Lower-Income Nebraskans
A federal grant of $62 million to the nonprofit Center for Rural Affairs in Lyons, Nebraska, will help build residential solar-power installations for Nebraska families who usually can’t afford the cost-saving systems, the center’s director said. The Center for Rural Affairs is one of 60 grantees across the...
One Path to Easing the Rural Counselor Shortage
Editor’s Note: A version of this story first appeared in Mile Markers, a twice monthly newsletter from Open Campus about the role of colleges in rural America. You can join the mailing list at the bottom of this article to receive future editions in your inbox. A senior at...
Rural Jails Turn to Community Health Workers To Help the Newly Released Succeed
This story was originally published by KFF Health News. Garrett Clark estimates he has spent about six years in the Sanpete County Jail, a plain concrete building perched on a dusty hill just outside Manti, Utah, the small, rural town where he grew up. He blames his addiction. He started...
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