A Connecticut woman who runs an animal sanctuary has turned to another passion — vegan and gluten-free cooking — to help fund the operation.

Kathleen Schurman, owner of Locket’s Meadow Farm Animal Sanctuary in Bethany, has hit the road with “Duck’s Truck,” a food trailer version of her popular, former Duck’s Soup Restaurant in Hamden.

Specialties are:

~ wraps of tofu and other vegetables;

~ chili;

~ soups including corn chowder, carrot ginger, potato/onion, greens and beans;

~ side dishes such as potato salad made with her special homemade mayo,

~ waffle sticks with maple or peanut butter sauce dip.

Her scrumptious deserts include:

~ oversized muffins brimming with berries,

~ chocolate cake,

~ huge cookies of sugar, chocolate chip, snickerdoodle, oatmeal raisin,

~ and more.

All of it is vegan and gluten-free.

All the profits from the food trailer will go toward feeding and caring for the farm’s 40 horses, nine cows, eight pigs, some 30 goats and more.

“It’s the easiest thing you can do to make people happy,” Schurman said. “It makes me happy when I see people smile.”

It makes her even happier to be able to feed the more than 100 rescue animals that live at the farm, most of them saved from slaughter, neglect or rescued from the animal industry.  >>MORE