“If we don’t make enough money, we can’t be here next year. But if we make lots of money and we sacrifice the planet in the process, then that’s, that’s a loss that we can’t sustain. And if we, even if we make the planet beautiful but then the people can’t tolerate the life that we’ve built, and that’s not okay either, right?”
Curtis Millsap is co-owner and operator of Millsap Farms. He gave KSMU and OPT a tour of the farm this past spring and shared his vision for their work.
“We have to find a balance,” he said. “It feels like every time we think we’ve found a balance, something shifts and we go, whoa. Okay, well, okay, how’s this feel now? And that’s probably just the nature of life. My hope is that the next generation that comes after me, you know, won’t have to say, oh, we don’t have any farming background. They’ll be able to say, oh yeah, I apprenticed at Millsap Farms, and I learned a ton there, and now I’ve taken that knowledge and turned it into my own in my context, you know, whatever that looks like. I have hope that that that’s where we’re headed.”…