Articles written by Ben Winchester & Chet Bodin

Ben Winchester and Chet Bodin, University of Minnesota Extension Center for Community Vitality|Sep 30, 2021

Did you know that Minnesota communities are recognized around the country for their resident recruitment efforts? It’s true! Minnesota is a leader in rural resident recruitment thanks in part to the University of Minnesota Extension’s pioneering rural movers research, which is focused on finding out why people move to rural areas. Extension has worked for over a decade to disseminate those findings to rural communities throughout Minnesota and across the country. Those communities used the findings to expand and coordinate their local and regio...