007 - Building Community in Rural America - Spencer Wood and Kim Niewolny
Our Farms, Our Future
English - July 06, 2018 10:00 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MBNatural Sciences Science ranching research sustainable usda agriculture farming grants sare Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This episode, two rural sociologists dig into why they feel passionately about building connections among farming communities.
Kim Niewolny is an Associate Professor of Agricultural Leadership and Community Education at Virginia Tech. Spencer Wood is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Kansas State University. They were both drawn to the field's emphasis on rural leadership and community-based education outside of the classroom and the research lab.