Cultivating Resilience - Reaching Rural America / Llegar a la América rural

Reaching Rural America / Llegar a la América rural

05/17/23 • 28 min

Content warning: This episode contains discussions of suicide.

Rates for depression are higher in rural America than in urban areas; and according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suicide rates among people living in rural areas are 64 to 68 percent higher compared to people living in large urban areas. Public health awareness campaigns that work in cities aren’t cutting it in the countryside. Rural communities require a different communication approach.

That’s where Jeff Winton comes in. Jeff runs Wall Street Dairy in upstate New York, and he’s the founder of Rural Minds, a 501c3 nonprofit with the mission to serve as the informed voice for mental health in rural America and to provide mental health information and resources. The organization’s vision is a rural America where there’s no more stigma, silence, or suffering around mental illness.

Jeff founded Rural Minds in response to the suicide of his 28-year-old nephew, Brooks Winton. On this episode, we’ll discuss Jeff and Brooks’ story, and how they aim to raise awareness and remove stigma around mental illness in rural America. Recognizing that self-reliance and a do-it-yourself mindset are common among many individuals who live in rural communities, Rural Minds is partnering with individuals and organizations to help empower rural Americans with information, resources, and training to become part of the solution to improving rural mental health and preventing suicide.

Highlights:

Jeff Winton’s background (1:44)
Mental health organizations are struggling to reach rural America (5:29)
Brooks Winton and the origins of Rural Minds (6:44)
Why rural populations are more at risk for mental illness (11:41)
Cultural expectations of independence (14:47)
Why Jeff was honest about suicide in Brooks’ eulogy (16:03)
The power of telling your story (17:35)
Raising awareness through trusted organizations (21:31)
Mental health resources (23:37)

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This work is supported by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network (FRSAN) project 2020-70028-32729.

Descripción:

Advertencia sobre el contenido: En este episodio se habla de suicidio.

Los índices de depresión son más altos en las zonas rurales de Estados Unidos que en las urbanas; y según los últimos datos de los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades, los índices de suicidio entre las personas que viven en zonas rurales son entre un 64 y un 68 por ciento más altos en comparación con las personas que viven en grandes zonas urbanas. Las campañas de concienciación sanitaria que funcionan en las ciudades no sirven en el campo. Las comunidades rurales requieren un enfoque de comunicación diferente.

Ahí es donde entra Jeff Winton. Jeff dirige Wall Street Dairy, al norte del estado de Nueva York, y es el fundador de Rural Minds, una organización sin ánimo de lucro 501c3 cuya misión es ser la voz informada de la salud mental en las zonas rurales de Estados Unido...

Content warning: This episode contains discussions of suicide.

Highlights:

Jeff Winton’s background (1:44)
Mental health organizations are struggling to reach rural America (5:29)
Brooks Winton and the origins of Rural Minds (6:44)
Why rural populations are more at risk for mental illness (11:41)
Cultural expectations of independence (14:47)
Why Jeff was honest about suicide in Brooks’ eulogy (16:03)
The power of telling your story (17:35)
Raising awareness through trusted organizations (21:31)
Mental health resources (23:37)

Links:

Feedback:

If you have questions about the show or topics you'd like discussed in future episodes, email us at [email protected]

This work is supported by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network (FRSAN) project 2020-70028-32729.

Descripción:

Advertencia sobre el contenido: En este episodio se habla de suicidio.

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Resilience / Resiliencia

Puede encontrar una transcripción en español de este episodio AQUÍ

Cultivating Resilience—it’s our title, and the goal for this podcast: to help our listeners develop mental resilience. But what is resilience? And how do you get it?

Over the course of this season, we’ve covered specific stressors and the skills that can help you manage and overcome them. But for our final episode, we’re zooming out and addressing resilience generally. Because strong people aren’t born, they’re made—which means you can learn and build resilience if you know what to practice.

On this episode, we've got three different stories of resilience for you, each highlighting multiple ways of developing your mental fortitude. You'll meet a military intelligence officer, a pumpkin with a past and Louise, the 600-pound pig. Through it all, we’ll talk about planning, adaptability, purpose and the characteristics that define a resilient person. And our guests, Matt & Stefanie Barfield (Chesterfield Heirlooms), Jeff Sale (Centurion Farm), Anne Devin (Chase Stream Farm) and Rhyne Cureton (@pork.rhyne) will share the strategies that helped them bounce back from the challenges life put in their way.

Join us for our final episode of the season, where we’ll share the roadmap to resilient living.

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The Land is a Relative / La Tierra es un Relativo

La entrevista completa con Rev Dele está disponible con subtítulos en español en la página de Cultivemos en YouTube.

The full interview with Rev Dele is available with Spanish subtitles on the Cultivemos YouTube channel.

Description:

We have to reimagine our relationship with the land.

Farmers are experiencing a crisis of land access. The number of farms is decreasing and the cost of farm real estate has nearly doubled in the past decade, shutting out many prospective farmers. That’s especially true for BIPOC farmers: 98% of farmland is owned by white landowners. With better land access, farming would be more sustainable, achievable and diverse. Without it, farmers can’t farm.

But there’s another harm that’s hidden within the crisis of land access. It’s harder to measure, but no less important. With land out of reach, fewer and fewer people have a relationship with the earth. That means, fewer and fewer people are getting the healing benefits of land: wonder, refuge, calm, even wealth and liberation. To move forward, we have to reimagine our relationship with the land.

So on today’s episode, we speak with two people who are committed to creating relationships with the land. Danielle Peláez is the Education Coordinator at Soul Fire Farm. Through their programming, they create opportunities for Afro-Indigenous people to forge lasting relationships with the earth. Rev Dele is a Black, Indigenous minister, who is teaching the church how to model sustainability. Through her initiatives, Soil & Souls and the Indigenous Mothers Community Land Trust, she’s sharing the Earth’s healing and pursuing land sovereignty for her community.

A better future starts with our imagination. So join us, as we reimagine our relationship with the land, and find strategies for sharing its bounty with others.

Highlights:

Danielle Peláez’s farming journey (1:50)
Rev Dele’s history with the land (4:30)
Disconnection: the dark history of land in America (6:25)
How land can heal you (8:24)
Learning from indigenous stewards (10:02)
The crisis of land access (12:19)
Land sovereignty & the Indigenous Mothers Community Land Trust (14:17)
How Soul Fire Farm creates opportunities for connection with their programming (16:47)
How the personal fuels the political (20:36)
Reimagining the land as a relative (22:12)
How the land can help us heal our relationships with each other (25:44)
It won’t take forever (28:42)
The role–and limits–of imagination in the fight for a better future (31:14)

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If you have questions about the show or topics you'd like discussed in future episodes, email us at [email protected]

This work is supported by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network (FRSAN) project 2020-70028-32729.

Descripción:

Tenemos que reimaginar nuestra relación con la tierra.

Los agricultores sufren una crisis de acceso a la tierra. El número de explotaciones está disminuyendo y el coste de la propiedad agrícola casi se ha duplicado en la última década, dejando fuera a muchos posibles agricultores. Esto es especialmente cierto para los agricultores BIPOC: el 98% de las tierras agrícolas son propiedad de terratenientes blancos. Con un mejor acceso a la tierra, la agricultura...