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09/28/2026

The Blessing Box at Hartville’s Hellbender Hollow Disc Golf Park has a fresh restock! We took a new approach this month in how we paired the food by grouping it as a meal.

Perfecto Combo: Grab Rice, Beans, Tomatoes
RB&V: Ranch Beans and Veggies
KSR: Kitchen Sink Ramen - Add it all!

Special shout out to The Ozarks Agrarian News for their work in amplifying one of the awesomest ways to have the six of our community. It’s easy to give back when you have built infrastructure.

08/27/2026

🥒➡️🫙 Shout-out to one of our favorite local food producers Ocean Anastasia Atwell at Sea Horse Ranch & Farm Stand whose willingness to share her unique food producer story with us (and Empower Missouri’s Under the Dome podcast-link coming soon!), inspired the new GOTURSIX business cards:

“A cucumber feeds a family. A pickle feeds a business.”

That one sentence says so much about the “missing middle” we’re working to better understand. Growing the cucumber is one thing. Having the knowledge, infrastructure, resources, and market to turn it into a product that can generate income is another.

Thanks to funding from the Vital Farms and Community Foundation of the Ozarks 2026 Local Impact Grant, we can help food producers like Ocean make that move from farm stand to commercial kitchen through the forthcoming Wright County Farm Stop. It’s one way we can help strengthen local food enterprise and create more pathways for locally produced food to reach people and markets across Douglas, Laclede, Texas, Webster, and Wright counties.

We’re grateful to Ocean for her perspective, feedback, and of course the pickles 🫙, and champion the Rebel Canner spirit you bring to our local food community!

https://empowermissouri.org/under-the-dome-podcast/

08/27/2026

Thank you, Springfield Community Gardens!

Starting this Wednesday, August 26, 2026.
Hartville Senior Citizens Center on S. Glenn Ave.
417-741-6420
Don't miss out on this wonderful opportunity!

08/27/2026

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If you grow it, raise it, make it, process it, sell it, serve it, distribute it, or help people access it in Missouri, consider joining the map!

Missouri is building a clearer picture of the people, businesses, organizations, and resources that make our regional food systems work.

That includes farmers and growers, ranchers, food makers, processors, markets, restaurants, grocers, food pantries, schools, community organizations, distributors, kitchens, and others working with food in our communities.

If that sounds like you, please take a few minutes to complete the Missouri Regional Food Access Partnership survey and add yourself to the statewide map (if you scroll a bit you'll see us there too)

https://allthingsmissouri.org/missouri-regional-food-partners/

For us in South Central Missouri, this matters. We’re working with Empower Missouri through the Missouri Regional Food Access Partnership (MRFAP) and the MU Extension through MO EATs to better understand the “missing middle” between growing food and getting it to local people and markets.

The more we know about what already exists, the better we can see what’s missing, where connections can be made, and what our region needs next.

What’s exciting about this work is that the information we gather will help us put the 2026 Local Impact Grant from Vital Farms and Community Foundation of the Ozarks to work with purpose. The feedback will help shape the Wright County Farm Stop’s cold storage space and strengthen the connection between locally produced food and the people and markets it can serve across Douglas, Laclede, Texas, Webster, and Wright counties.

If you deal with food in any way, put yourself on the map. And please share this with someone else who should be there.

08/27/2026

A big thank you to Missouri Foundation for Health (MFH) for an informative and energizing “Introductory Capitol Workshop” with the LINK Project. Also to the Missouri Soybeans Center for Innovation for hosting our group of 30+ from all over the state.

By the time we arrived home in Wright County, the new Blessing Box already needed to be restocked. It was a full circle reminder that all of us can play a part in improving food access in rural Missouri, from meeting an immediate need at home to speaking up for our communities at the Capitol.

While we were there, we also shared information with our lawmakers about our work with MU Extension and Empower Missouri. GOTURSIX was recently selected as the MO EATs Wright County community leader, giving us an opportunity to help bring South Central Missouri into the statewide conversation about how food moves through our communities.

That work also connects directly with the Missouri Regional Food Access Partnership (MRFAP), where we are helping strengthen the regional network and build a clearer picture of what already exists, what is missing, and where rural communities see opportunity.

Together, this work is helping us map the ‘missing middle’ between growing food and getting it to local people and markets: processing, storage, distribution, market access, business support, and the relationships that connect it all. What we learn will also help us build the Wright County Farm Stop with purpose, based on what local producers and communities tell us they need.

We’re excited to step more fully into this part of GOTURSIX’s work and help make sure rural Missouri has a voice in the decisions that affect our communities.

Learn more and share what you know about food in South Central Missouri:

https://www.gotursix.org/moeats
https://extension.missouri.edu/programs/mo-eats
https://empowermissouri.org/from-food-access-to-food-systems-how-the-missouri-rural-food-access-partnership-is-shaping-a-statewide-vision-for-the-future/

If you want to learn more or get involved, we’re happy to share what we learned and would love to have you join us!

08/27/2026

The Blessing Box at Hellbender Hollow Disc Golf Park will be restocked tomorrow! Grateful for all of you who have supported this community food access point. Take what you need and leave what you can. Wright County neighbors caring for neighbors.

08/09/2026

Congrats to Callen Krambeck member of Team Disc Golf Monkey w/ Caddy (and Awesome Mom!) Teresa Grose Krambeck for winning yesterday’s Youth Under 18 Division at the 4th Mother Road Open sponsored by SoundEnvision. GO TEAM DISC GOLF MONKEY! And big thanks to Nora Thompson Myres for supporting GOTURSIX’s First Youth Sponsored Athlete 🥏

08/08/2026

Happy Saturday from the Mother Road Open in Marshfield!

Today we got to do something pretty special: we officially “signed” the first GOTURSIX Sponsored Youth Athlete, Callen Krambeck. Awesome Mom and Caddy is Teresa Grose Krambeck

Callen is 11 years old and found an interest in competitive play after his grandpa crossed paths with Disc Golf Monkey Russ Burns, our founding course designer at Hellbender Hollow Disc Golf Park. Now Callen wants to keep competing, and has a pretty big goal: he wants to go pro!

So we asked ourselves a simple question: What if we could help?

Through the GOTURSIX Youth Athlete Sponsorship, we’ll help fundraise to cover Callen’s tournament entry fees, provide Hellbender Hollow Disc Golf Park and Team Disc Golf Monkey gear.

The goal is bigger than tournament fees. We want to reduce the financial barriers that can keep young people from participating, while giving kids opportunities to build confidence, sportsmanship, resilience, leadership, and community through disc golf.

A huge thank you to Mother Road Open sponsors Slim Chickens and SoundEnvision for supporting disc golf here in the Ozarks.

Here’s to Callen, Teresa, Russ, the DGM Team, and big goals 🎉the first of hopefully many young people who get a chance to play.

Welcome to the team, Callen!

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