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Farm Happenings at Millsap Farms
Farm Happenings for May 15, 2020
Hi!! Welcome CSA members! We are excited to start off this summer CSA week #1. We are pumped about all the veggies we have for you this spring. We have noticed some members have add ons to their shares that occur at different times than their veggie shares - if you notice this is true of you,1 read more »
Farm Happenings for May 12, 2020
Hi!! Welcome CSA members! We are excited to start off this summer CSA week #1. And we are hoping we don't get too frosty tonight! A few housekeeping things:
Strawberries - There is no fruit share this week (you didn't pay for one) since we don't know year to year if we will have fruit for the first1 read more »
Time to get signed up
It's the time of year to get your veggies arranged for the growing season; we are currently adding members to our Community Supported Agriculture program. This is a great way to support local, sustainable agriculture (which means cleaner water, air, and food, and preservation of the rur1 read more »
Farm Happenings for January 10, 2020
Welcome to our January vegetable shares! We are not selling memberships this winter, to allow for a more flexible production and harvest schedule, but we are offering shares on a weekly basis.
Check out the fabulous spinach, salad mix, daikon, french breakfast radishes, and other offerings a1 read more »
Last CSA of 2019
Merry almost Christmas!
This is the last CSA share of 2019. We have enjoyed farming for you this year, and are grateful for a good season. We plan to send out weekly availability e-mails, based on what we have available, allowing you to purchase online, starting around mid January. 1 read more »
Slowing down at the farm
We are starting to slow down here on the farm; the weather is cooling, the plantings are all getting harvested, we're removing covers, stakes, weed barriers, drip line, and all the other materials from the fields, organizing, cleaning, and storing them. The fields are empty, which is our cue1 read more »
Wind on the farm!
Whew! that was windy!
We had some extreme wind this weekend, starting Friday night and going through Sunday. We often get wind, as we are on top of a hill, and we have learned to deal with it pretty well, but this wind did create a casualty; our new spinach tunnel, built last month, blew over1 read more »
Finishing November Strong...
The Millsaps were out of town the first part of last week, visiting one of our former apprentices and his family in Ohio! We shovelled mulch, wired coolers, shovelled mulch, planted lettuce, shovelled mulch, and planted spinach, and, surprise, shovelled mulch!!! We had a great time, wit1 read more »
About the farm
Millsap Farms is a first generation family farm, located just 4 miles north of Springfield Missouri. Curtis and Sarah Millsap, along with their 10 children, farm manager Kimby, and a few interns, apprentices, and volunteers, grow 2 acres of vegetables year-round on their 20 acre farm. They grow a wide variety of vegetables, using organic techniques, never using synthetic pesticides, herbicides, or fertilizers, and focussing on the health of the soil. The Millsaps have been farming full-time for 14 years, and have a serious long-term commitment to their community to provide high quality produce and a welcoming farm.
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