SOLD OUT FOR 2008 SEASON -
THANK YOU

New for 2008 CSA:
dedham dropoff!
We will be adding a Sunday afternoon dropoff in Dedham due to increased membership. We are allowing for a limited number of shares so sign up now if you are interested in Boston area. Dropoff location will be at Barnes Memorial park from 2-4pm each Sunday.

CSA Shares for 2008
Carraig Farm is proud continue its CSA share program. Growing season will be June through October.

Various crops will include organic lettuce, potatoes, organic bread, beets, squash, tomatoes, herbs, beans, broccoli and spinach. Also included will be some unusual heirloom varieties and one bar a month of our own goat's milk soap. This years new addition will be edible flowers along with new varieties of thai and chinese veggies... Bread is available for purchase along with free range eggs and compost tea. CSA members are also given first purchase of organic lamb and poultry.

Cost is $100 a month for a full share (enough to feed family of 4) or $60 a month for a half share (enough to feed family of 2) We have a limited number of shares so please reserve space early. Pickups are available Sunday from 10am to 1pm or during week by appointment. Shares must be prepaid for season. A full share is $400, half share is $240.

Interested? Call us at 978.386.2379 for further information and to sign up...

from Morning Edition, National Public Radio

Creating Our Own Happiness by Wayne Coyne

Wayne Coyne is singer and guitarist for the Grammy Award-winning rock band The Flaming Lips. He wrote and directed Christmas on Mars, a science-fiction film featuring the group. Coyne and his wife, Michelle, a photographer, live in Oklahoma City.

Happiness is not a situation to be longed for, or a convergence of lucky happenstance. Through the power of our own minds, we can help ourselves. I believe we have the power to create our own happiness. I believe the real magic in the world is done by humans. I believe normal life is extraordinary.

I was sitting in my car at a stoplight intersection listening to the radio. I was, I guess, lost in the moment, thinking how happy I was to be inside my nice warm car. It was cold and windy outside, and I thought, "Life is good."

Now, this was a long light. As I waited, I noticed two people huddled together at the bus stop. To my eyes, they looked uncomfortable; they looked cold and they looked poor. Their coats looked like they came from a thrift store. They weren't wearing stuff from The Gap. I knew it because I'd been there.

The couple seemed to be doing their best to keep warm. They were huddled together, and I thought to myself, "Oh, those poor people in that punishing wind."

But then I saw their faces. Yes, they were huddling, but they were also laughing. They looked to be sharing a good joke, and suddenly, instead of pitying them, I envied them. I thought, "Huh, what's so funny?" They didn't notice the wind. They weren't worried about their clothes. They weren't looking at my car thinking, "I wish I had that."

You know when a single moment feels like an hour? Well, in that moment, I realized I had assumed this couple needed my pity, but they didn't. I assumed things were all bad for them, but they weren't. And I understood we all have the power to make moments of happiness happen.

Now, maybe that's easy for me to say. I feel lucky to have fans around the world, a house with a roof and a wife who puts up with me. But I felt this way even when I was working at Long John Silver's. I worked there for 11 years as a fry cook. When you work at a place that long, you see teenagers coming in on their first dates; then they're married; then they're bringing in their kids. You witness whole sections of people's lives. In the beginning, it seemed like a dead end job. But at least I had a job. And frankly, it was easy. After two weeks, I knew all I needed to know, and it freed my mind. The job allowed me to dream about what my life could become.

The first year I worked there, we got robbed. I lay on the floor. I thought I was going to die. I didn't think I stood a chance. But everything turned out all right. A lot of people look at life as a series of miserable tasks, but after that, I didn't.

I believe this is something all of us can do: Try to be happy within the context of the life we are actually living. Happiness is not a situation to be longed for or a convergence of lucky happenstance. Through the power of our own minds, we can help ourselves. This I believe.

Charities we support (and admire)

www.doctorswithoutborders.org
www.newenglandforestry.org
www.actionagainsthunger.org
www.charitywatch.org
www.farmsanctuary.org
www.wcs.org
www.childrensdefense.org
www.nature.org
www.africare.org

These are just a few of the many good charities out there. Please give what you can...to us a $2 coffee isn't much, to a child in a third world nation it is food for a week.