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“Creating your own opportunity” in the place where you want to live requires a different mindset from following a set career ladder. Read More »

Organics, specialty crops and emerging technologies are “where it’s at” for young farmers, according to the nation’s top ag official. Read More »

Healthy relationships are the foundation of rural communities. And the community of Arlington, S.D., has determined relationships must reach outside the town’s own 900 residents to truly be successful. Read More »

One Saturday, I received a video chat call from my older brother, who at the time was traveling in Cambodia. Read More »

The “long game” of connecting with the young people in a community is guiding them into being active citizens someday. Read More »

Many people who work in the realm of rural ideas have been trying to change the message that we are giving our young people: Read More »

This question was asked at the September regional roundtable of northeast economic developers. Here are some of their answers. Read More »

Our September gathering of the Prairie Idea Exchange tested an assumption: By engaging with our young people today, we are more likely to keep them in, or bring them back to, our towns later as active members of the community. Read More »

One of the goals of the Prairie Idea Exchange is helping people of the region look at the world around them with systems thinking in mind: Read More »

Think about your own “homecoming story”—What are the things that draw you to “home”? Read More »