Why CSA? CSA, Community-Supported Agriculture- is a way for people to interact directly with a farm: to know their farmer, to eat food harvested mere hours before delivery, and to secure farm viability in their community. People partaking in a CSA become share members, they form an agriculture-supporting community: a community which keeps its food [...]
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Why should you join a CSA?
Posted in Farm News, Food Industry, Photos on February 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Making Vanilla Extract the Real Stuff
Posted in Food Industry, Photos, Recipes, Tips and Tricks, Uncategorized, tagged bean, Do it yourself, extract, homemade, real, stuff, vanilla on February 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
We are making vanilla extract today. This is the real stuff, not vanillin which is a by product from paper making known and widely sold as Imitation Vanilla. So it really is pretty easy, it just takes patience. We purchase our vanilla beans from http://www.vanillaproductsusa.com/servlet/StoreFront . The beans come from the orchid. We even have a few of beans directly [...]
Strawberries season
Posted in About Produce, Farm News, Food Industry, Photos, This week's Harvest, Uncategorized on May 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Fun facts about strawberries Our extra strawberries share has just begun and we are loving the deliciously sweet strawberries! To celebrate the start of strawberry season, here are some fun facts about strawberries. Strawberries have more vitamin C than an orange. (8 berries contain 140% of the daily value.) They are also a good source [...]
Fresh means Local!
Posted in About Produce, Farm News, Food Industry, Millsap Farm Volunteers, Photos on May 1, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Fresh means Local These days, “fresh” seems to mean fresh off the truck from California, and “local” is anything east of the Rockies and west of the Atlantic. For us, fresh means that the produce we hand-picked at 7 in the morning is at your door by 7 in the evening. Furthermore, we grow only [...]
Sustainable Food Movies coming to Springfield Monday
Posted in Book and Media Reviews, Food Industry, Uncategorized on April 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Good news about Millsap Farm pork
Posted in Book and Media Reviews, Farm News, Food Industry, Uncategorized on January 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Movie at the Moxie
Posted in Book and Media Reviews, Farm News, Food Industry, Uncategorized on July 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
The Future of Food
Posted in Book and Media Reviews, Food Industry on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Sustainable Agriculture at Mizzou
Posted in Food Industry on February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I read a really great article yesterday in the MU Alumni magazine about the new sustainability programs at MU, including a student organization that is composting leftovers from the dining hall and also some support from the university extension program. It’s good to see folks in other parts of the state getting excited about sustainable [...]
So that’s why store bought tomatoes are so bad!
Posted in Food Industry on January 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Several years ago for my job I had occasion to visit a vegetable processing facility. This was a warehouse type building with miles of conveyor belts and industrial sized vegetable sorting, cleaning, cutting, and packaging machines. Incoming produce included bananas; tomatoes; and lettuce, cabbage, and carrots for making those bags of pre-mixed salad you see in the [...]
