Current State | August 1, 2026

With $15,500 in grant funding secured in July 2026 through Vital Farms and the Community Foundation of the Ozarks, as well as additional public and private funding requests underway, GOTURSIX is investing in the “middle-food infrastructure” needed to develop the Wright County Farm Stop, a regional food-enterprise hub intended to serve approximately 140,000 residents across Wright, Webster, Texas, Laclede, and Douglas Counties.

End State | June 30, 2027

By June 2027, GOTURSIX will have implemented the Missouri EATs process across our five-county region of approximately 140,000 people and translated what we learned into action.

With the support of Missouri EATs and the regional intelligence we gain through this project, GOTURSIX will build the Wright County Farm Stop to reflect the needs and opportunities of our foodshed.

Over time, the Farm Stop can grow into a regional food-enterprise hub, connecting producers to physical, online, and mobile markets and providing shared resources such as cold and dry storage, aggregation, commercial kitchen and canning capacity, and other infrastructure that helps local food enterprises grow.

Regional intelligence will inform the design, infrastructure, investments, partnerships, services, and operations of the Wright County Farm Stop, while creating a stronger network of producers, leaders, markets, resources, and relationships to support continued food-enterprise development across South Central Missouri.

Vision

A Wright County Farm Stop shaped by the South Central Missouri foodshed and built to help local food producers turn what they grow, raise, make, and preserve into sustainable food enterprises.

The Farm Stop can become a regional hub where producers gain access to shared infrastructure, new markets, enterprise support, and relationships that would be difficult to build alone, while keeping more of the economic value of local food within our region.