So why do the Millsap’s have so many kids?

Have you ever wondered why your farmer has so many girls?   Well Juliana Goodwin wrote a nice article about Curtis and our family as a father’s day tribute.  You can hear the story behind the story of Millsap Farm at the Newsleader http://www.news-leader.com/article/20110619/LIFE/106190308/Springfield-father-nine-Something-could-never-expect-from-fatherhood-amount-could-love-them-?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE -Sarah Millsap        

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Sustainable Food Movies coming to Springfield Monday

We got wind that Slow Foods of Southwest Missouri is sponsoring a showing of a great film called Fresh.  If you haven’t seen it yet, and you are free or can become free Monday night you should check it out.  Fresh is a great upbeat look at the exciting things happening in sustainable agriculture and it features [...]

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Taste and Science at the Discovery Center

We will be at the Discovery Center tomorrow night for the, Taste and Science at the Discovery Center program.  This program will focus on the science behind the way our palettes work.  It will incorporate hands on, learning as well!  Chef Rob Corliss will be teaching, you will get to taste many things as part of the learning .  They [...]

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Farmer Curtis is in the News

Curtis has been working with our local elementry school, Pleasant View, one day a week during the school year. The News Leader did a nice set of articles on his work.  They got off to a slow start because the greenhouse was not ready at the start of school.  Now that it is fully functioning [...]

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Good news about Millsap Farm pork

For those who are interested in ethically raised meat, there’s an interesting article in Fridays Newsleader. The good news is we do not, and never have, used any antibiotics on our chickens, pigs, or turkeys. Our cattle very rarely get antibiotics, like maybe once in a lifetime, and then only for serious illness or infection [...]

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Movie at the Moxie

Food Inc, the new movie from Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser will be running at the Moxie starting this Friday evening, through next Thurs.  We are sponsoring the movie Monday and Wednesday, which means we’ll get a chance to introduce ourselves before the movie, and have a table in the lobby with farm info.   Whenever [...]

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Cooking with farm-fresh, in-season produce

  Here is a book produced by the Madison Area Community Supported Agriculture Coalition: From Asparagus to Zucchini – A Guide to Cooking Farm-Fresh Seasonal Produce. Based on the sample pages, it looks like there is some valuable information (practical and philosophical) on making the switch to local/fresh produce; and for each vegetable there is [...]

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The Future of Food

I just watched “The Future of Food.” If you needed any reasons to question what is going on with genetically modified food, this film will provide several. Here’s a little gem: “Monsanto corn is itself registered as a pesticide, because each cell is genetically modified to produce a toxin; if a corn bore worm eats [...]

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Article: Babies Know: A Little Dirt Is Good for You

Member Judy Dasovich shared this article. Curtis says, “I have to say that it is at once both vindicating and disgusting…  a little dirt is one thing, but all this talk about intestinal worms is disturbing.  Anyway, science is amazing.  Also curious, from an origins perspective, that the collumnist makes a point of stating that [...]

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Antibiotics in food

Though not new news to many of our readers, this article over at The Ethicurean Chew the right thing provides an excellent overview of the issues related to feeding antibiotics to animals and the use of resulting manure as crop fertilizer. One thing I love about The Ethicurean is it doesn’t just get people riled [...]

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