Mountain Grove

And that can include strawberry farms, peach orchards.

If you look along the railway, along Highway 60, between Mountain Grove and Springfield, there were many, many, many, many, many orchards and strawberry farms, and it blows the mind.

In fact, I'm gonna dig into that just a minute here, because I've got some facts here.

So once the railway came through, Missouri, There's a good microclimate for certain types of fruit in the Ozarks.

And every year you can run fewer cattle, fewer sheep on the land, okay? So the apple introduction is, in some cases, by the 1900s, it's a way to rejuvenate the land.

So by 1890, Missouri has vaulted to the top as a leading apple-producing state in the U.S., harvesting roughly 25 million bushels with the concentration centered in the Ozarks, Ride, Howe, and Greene Counties.

To support this rapid expansion, the state established the Fruit Experiment Station at Mountain Grove in 1899.

And this is from Ozark's Watch, History of the Missouri Fruit and Agricultural Station.

I am now an event producer.

Last year we produced the elementals gathering here in Missouri and mountain Grove, Missouri.

And it was a great success.

Like we did really well with it.

And this one is a little bit lighter.

It's about things that you can actually do for yourself here in 2026. um things are doing like really really well here with the uh building company and the biochar company we are in field trials with our biochar with our next product which is really cool so that's exciting and uh we have investor meetings and all the rest of it that type of stuff and then with building we're building the Big, beautiful, permanent bathrooms at the Barataria Times, or I should call it Ursa Rio there in Mountain Grove, Missouri, for the Festival Land, which the festival this year, the Barataria Times Festival, is going to be, I believe, October, the weekend of October 11th through 13th.

So sign up for that.

That's going to be good times.

Congratulations to West Plains for their win and Mountain Home for their win.

And I've seen Mountain Grove got beat.

Mountain Grove got beat, but they

were playing a really good opponent, playing Fairgrove.

And Houston got beat.