Vegetable Soup

Who grew the makings?

Whose hands planted the seeds
carrots and peas in the cool spring
sweet corn and green beans when temperatures rose?

Who set out the young tomato plants
and celery and the onion starts
who weeded and watched them grow?

Who stripped ripened corn from the stalks
and fattened peas from the vines
who gathered the plump tomatoes
and bent low over the bean plants at harvest time?

What are their names?

For this bowl of warm goodness
who do I thank?