

Rural Remix
Rural Remix
Your source for a deeper, richer story about life in rural places. Each episode of Rural Remix 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.
Rural Remix is an evolution of Everywhere Radio, an interview podcast that featured conversations with rural leaders and allies, spotlighting the good, scrappy, joyful ways rural people are building a more inclusive nation.
Rural Remix is a co-production of the Daily Yonder and the Rural Assembly, both projects of the nonprofit Center for Rural Strategies.
Rural Remix is an evolution of Everywhere Radio, an interview podcast that featured conversations with rural leaders and allies, spotlighting the good, scrappy, joyful ways rural people are building a more inclusive nation.
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Dec 4, 2025 • 52min
Routes to Roots (Episodio Español) - Ep 5: Mejor juntos
Este episodio explora los sentimientos de soledad comunes en la experiencia de los inmigrantes rurales y presenta estrategias probadas para su inclusión. Las historias que se presentan en este episodio ofrecen una vía para alejarse de las políticas y prácticas de exclusión y avanzar hacia culturas de pertenencia que fortalezcan a toda la comunidad.

Dec 4, 2025 • 32min
Routes to Roots (Episodio Español) - Ep 4: Perdidos en la traducción
Este episodio analiza las diferentes barreras lingüísticas que enfrentan los inmigrantes al adaptarse a la vida rural estadounidense. Las historias que presentamos muestran cómo, al añadir el idioma a las dificultades de acceso que enfrentan casi todos los estadounidenses rurales, los desafíos de la vida se intensifican. Estas historias también ofrecen perspectivas sobre la fortaleza que se puede alcanzar en las comunidades multilingües.

Dec 4, 2025 • 41min
Routes to Roots (Episodio Español) - Ep 3: Las culturas que llevamos
Este episodio explora el proceso de adaptación a la vida en un nuevo lugar, conservando las costumbres que nos hacen sentir como en casa. Las historias que se presentan en este episodio abordan los desafíos de la asimilación y ofrecen ejemplos de una mejor manera de hacerlo: preservar las culturas personales, aprender de otras y encontrar oportunidades interesantes para combinar lo antiguo con lo nuevo.

Dec 4, 2025 • 47min
Routes to Roots (Episodio Español) - Ep 2: Ganarse la vida
Este episodio analiza la participación de los inmigrantes en la economía rural. Las historias que se presentan explican la influencia de las industrias en la determinación del lugar de asentamiento de los nuevos inmigrantes y ofrecen perspectivas sobre el costo de alcanzar el sueño americano como recién llegado.

Dec 4, 2025 • 32min
Routes to Roots (Episodio Español) - Ep 1: Movimiento a través del tiempo y el lugar
Este episodio desmiente conceptos erróneos comunes sobre la inmigración en las zonas rurales de los Estados Unidos. Las historias presentadas en este episodio describen los patrones de inmigración a los EE.UU. a lo largo del tiempo, los factores que influyen en la difícil decisión de un inmigrante de abandonar su hogar y resaltan las contribuciones vitales que hacen los inmigrantes cuando encuentran nuevos hogares en las zonas rurales de Estados Unidos.

Oct 30, 2025 • 16min
Farmers and Gardeners are Helping Maintain Appalachia's Diversity of Local Plants and Flavors
On this episode, we’re taking a look at how farmers and gardeners are helping maintain the region’s biodiversity. Our first stop? A seed swap.With the summer gardening season at its end, many growers throughout Appalachia are turning their attention to seed saving. It’s a practice where gardeners select the seeds from their best crops, and then save them over winter to plant the following spring. This past April, we visited the annual Appalachian Seed Swap in Pikeville, Kentucky. We learned how important seed saving and swapping are for maintaining Appalachia’s biodiversity. And for creating a tasty meal.Next, we travel to Richmond, Kentucky where Brian Chadwell is growing something unexpected. He’s a fourth generation farmer and he’s using his family's land to grow rice.

Oct 23, 2025 • 32min
Beyond the Clock with Viktor le. Ewing Givens
In this episode of Beyond the Clock, our hosts Ash Hanson from Department of Public Transformation and Anna Claussen from Voices for Rural Resilience engage in deep conversation with rural Texas-based artist, Viktor le. Ewing Givens, aka Southern Android, who weaves poetry and ritual into his place-based creative work. Through unspoken language, layered memories, exploration of death and release, ancestral play, and acts of repair, Viktor invites us to examine our relationship with time and place and call in our past, present, and future kin to rematriate our connections to place. Find out more about Viktor's work at http://www.southernandroid.com.

Oct 1, 2025 • 13min
A Centuries-Old Appalachian Hymn Singing Tradition is Still Soothing Souls
Ginny Hawker is a singer and mentor in the Primitive Baptist tradition, an acapella style with roots in Appalachia. This style of singing inspired bluegrass legends like Ralph Stanley, along with country stars like Patty Loveless and Ricky Skaggs. Hawker is passing this music tradition on to a new generation.

Sep 19, 2025 • 39min
Routes to Roots - Ep 5: Better Together
The final episode Routes to Roots, Better Together, explores feelings of loneliness common to the rural immigrant experience and illuminates tried and true strategies for immigrant inclusion. The stories featured in this episode offer a pathway away from policies and practices of exclusion toward cultures of belonging that strengthen the whole community.Learn more here. Transcript for this episode in Spanish here.

Sep 18, 2025 • 26min
Routes to Roots - Ep 4: Lost in Translation
Episode Four, Lost In Translation, surveys the different kinds of language barriers that immigrants encounter as they try to adapt to rural American life. The stories featured in this episode show how, when you add language to the access issues that almost all rural Americans deal with, the challenges of living intensify. These stories also provide insights around the strength that is possible in multilingual communities.Learn more here.Transcript of this episode in Spanish here.


