Rural Minds Nonprofit To Be Featured In Public Broadcasting Documentary - Post-Journal
MAYVILLE — Rural Minds, a local nonprofit focused on mental health in rural America, is set to be featured on a documentary episode of Roadtrip Nation that will air on public broadcasting stations in 2026.
The episode was filmed at Wall Street Dairy in Mayville at the beginning of August, focusing on life on the farm, the work of Rural Minds, and life in rural America. Founder and Chairman of Rural Minds, Jeff Winton, said that the episode may also air on PBS, but everything remains up in the air for PBS at the moment.
Back in July it was approved by the House of Representatives to cut federal funding for the Corporation of Public Broadcasting, which supplies funds to both PBS and NPR, for around the total amount of $1.1 billion. Since then, the Corporation has announced it is beginning to wind down operations, but according to the New York Times both NPR and PBS should survive as NPR’s budget only includes about two percent for federal funding and 15% of PBS’s budget is for that.