Good Morning all my secret readers.......hope to see all of you at the first winter market in Montpelier tomorrow. Lot's of great product coming to market with me. Winter salad mix, eggs, quarts of marinara sauce, pesto, green curry coconut squash soup served hot in a cup and quarts for take home as well as potato kale soup. I will also have some winter squash, really sweet kale, small cabbages at 3-5 lbs. The soups are made by me at the LACE kitchen in Barre and Red Hen Baking will also start selling them at their store in Middlesex.

The market is the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month this winter all the way through April.

Hope everyone had a great and tasty thanksgiving. This mild weather continues and it has been great for fall/winter crops. I am still harvesting from my outside fields this late in the season and the greenhouses look the best ever of my 7 years of winter growing. All my soups and sauces are being made with at least 80% local ingredients. This is a new adventure for me and I will be using all my own product or product from Dog River Farm and Littlewood Farm. So trying to keep things hyper-local.

Egg production continues to confound me. 150 birds and I am getting only 2-3 dozen eggs a day. Talk about freeloading hired help.....

Now onto my political soapbox. I have pasted a link to an article in the New York times below which quite frankly really pisses me off. Please give it a read it's fairly short. In my opinion this is exactly what is wrong with our industrial food system. Instead putting animals back on pasture where they belong and have spent thousands of years evolving to eat grass. Which means little to no E. Coli production in the animals gut we spend millions of dollars developing a vaccine that will be partially effective and continue feedlot confinement beef production. Damn!

Well gotta go.......Joe

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/business/04vaccine.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1259928132-SCsBbATgX5JI8Az51JC4Pg