Kansas City team brings conservation message to the big city For Candice Price and Wayne Hubbard, organizing a family outing is similar to your average fishing trip. They round up the poles and tackle, and the pond they stock is a little closer to the city center than...
Pat McCarty keeps his hammer swinging at Washington Forge Pat McCarty has never met a piece of junk. Every piece of rusty iron or worn wood he comes across has another purpose. Screws from a broken chair become metal hearts for Valentine’s Day, an old bar of iron from...
Powerlifter Charlie Phillips gears up for Medal Run Amid the roar of the crowd and the music, Charlie Phillips takes the stage. Grasping almost a quarter-ton of weight between his hands, the 26-year-old straightens his legs and rises on the cheers as if carried on a...
Co-op leaders bring rural Missouri to Capitol Hill Improving the quality of life for their members back home was the key focus for nearly 2,000 electric cooperative leaders who visited Washington, D.C., April 17-19 for a legislative conference organized by the...
Julia Allspach passes down the art of china painting Looking back on a lifetime of drawing and painting, Julia Allspach can’t estimate how many different artworks she’s made. While her home is adorned with tiles, vases, plates, Christmas ornaments, lampshapes and tea...
Co-ops purpose-built to serve members, communities No matter where they’re located or what challenges they face, electric cooperatives need only look to the principles that created them in order to build a better future for their members and communities. That was the...
by Rob Myers | info@ruralmissouri.coopphotos by Zach Smith | zsmith@ruralmissouri.coop Planting a mailbox garden can be a fun way to add some color to the front of your property. The challenge can be selecting plants that provide low-maintenance flowering from...
by Chase Smoak Your guide to growing delicious homegrown tomatoes Many gardeners claim if you want great flavor, you’ll need to plant heirloom varieties. People selected these landrace tomato plants long ago for traits such as shape, size and taste, so the claim has a...
Contest reveals Rural Missouri readers’ favorites For more than two decades, the readers of Rural Missouri have never been shy about sharing their favorite places in the Show-Me State. This 20th edition of the contest received thousands of responses from across the...
Life-altering allergy expands artist’s palette It started as a panic attack — at least that’s what Katie Cahoj thought. It was June 2020, and the then-27-year-old artist and educator thought her difficulty breathing and erratic heart rate were her body’s reaction to...