Home Starts Here

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SDSU Extension’s Home Starts Here podcast seeks out the individuals, businesses, and ideas that are sparking vibrant communities in South Dakota. Each month, our community vitality field specialists visit with rural changemakers about their ‘why’ and the challenges they face as they transform ideas into action.

Follow along on Spotify to be inspired by those who are creating a more vibrant place, strengthening community businesses, creating something entirely new, or inspiring others to join in their vision of how their hometown could be just a bit better.

Hosted by SDSU Extension Community Vitality Field Specialists Joshua Hofer and Kara Harders.

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SDSU Extension Community Vitality launches new podcast, ‘Home Starts Here’

March 10, 2023

The South Dakota State University Extension Community Vitality team is proud to announce the launch of their new podcast, "Home Starts Here". For its fourth episode, there will be a live recording of “Home Starts Here” at 1 p.m. on March 25 at the Heritage Hall Museum complex during the 2023 Schmeckfest festival in Freeman, South Dakota.

The quilt gifted from Freeman Network for Justice & Peace to East River Horizons.

The Medicine Quilt: Margaret Doom

On this episode of Home Starts Here, Joshua Hofer and Kara Harders speak with Margaret Doom, artist and collaborator on a project linking the communities of Wagner and Freeman, South Dakota.

Selene Zamorano-Ochoa and Jose Arreola of Sioux Falls and Mitchell, South Dakota. Together they helped develop the first Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in South Dakota.

Sioux Falls Hispanic Chamber of Commerce: Selene Zamorano-Ochoa and Jose Arreola

In this episode of Home Starts Here, Joshua Hofer and Kara Harders meet with Selene Zamorano-Ochoa and Jose Arreola of Sioux Falls and Mitchell, South Dakota. Together they helped develop the first Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in South Dakota.