When Ruth Walter and her husband, both of them with 8th grade educations, decided to take their three children and leave the Flat Willow Hutterite Colony to make a new life for themselves, they 'didn't have a kernel of salt in their cupboard.' 22 years later, they are pillars of the tiny Montana farm community of Judith Gap.
(Broadcast: "Mountain West Voices," 3/30/15. Listen weekly on the radio on Mondays, 3:00 p.m., or via podcast.)