Hello there, not sure who reads this but Mom pointed out that I had not posted in a while......Last 2 weeks have finally been hot and dry. Amazing how the plants react to it. Harvesting like crazy right now and working on winter soup bases for sale by the quart( yeah winter..). Anyhow I have a gumbo base, roasted summer squash and garlic veloute, pesto base and am going to start working on corn chowder. The chowder is a childhood soup. Man I loved that stuff. Marinara and basil are next. Winter squash will get turned into something nice but not until the end of October. Next batch of meat chickens and ducks are on the lawn. The last batch of chicken turned out real nice. Doing forty this time around and they should be ready at the end of September. Ducks will be ready for Thanksgiving. Should be interesting. Montp. market has gone well the last two times. Trying to do a few more into October. Barre market continues to be a real challenge. We have a market, it rains. We have had rain at all but one or two of the this summer. So now I am thinking I need a commercial kitchen in order to become the soup nazi of vermont.........soup is good, I love soup...and winter is coming. Soup and salad? anyone........... gotta run.....