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Welcome to Greener Pastures, a new Midstory podcast that takes you out into the fields to retell the story you thought you knew. Midwest farms are facing some big challenges, and the grass certainly looks greener on the far side of this crisis. But how do we get there? And what could the farm — and the farmer — of tomorrow look like?

"The Midstory Hour" is a weekly radio show by Midstory, a nonprofit organization dedicated to telling stories that inform, interpret and inspire for the region and to the world, in collaboration with WGTE. The podcast spotlights the best of Midstory's content, connecting regional stories into national dialogues and featuring behind-the-story conversations with Midstory's writers from across the nation.

What could a car-less future look like? Or, at least, a less-car one? In Transit brings you dispatches from the cusp of a new era in Midwest public transportation. Join Midstory and host Janek Schaller as we travel from Detroit to Kansas City and everywhere in between to learn about innovative — and sometimes controversial — transit systems helping Middle America navigate what's next.

Brain Drain is a Midstory podcast that looks at an average American city through the eyes of the people who’ve left it behind. The decision to move away from home is often difficult and charged with deep and complicated emotions, and people have a wide range of motivations for leaving. But they all stem from the same, central question: When is home no longer enough?

Social distance...it means more than just six feet apart. What other kinds of distances did we encounter during such a year of crisis? Join Midstory as we interview experts in the humanities and delve into the kinds of distances that are, well...social—the gaps that have been exposed and widened, and how we’ve learned to bridge them. Each week, we look at a different cross section of society that has been impacted by the crisis, and unpack topics ranging from the environment, birth and death and shelter, to media, race relations and more through insights from historians, anthropologists, ...