Thankful.

Here's one thing I'm thankful for:  our farm share.  We're members of an incredible farm which not only supplies us with fresh organic vegetables, eggs, flowers, and other produce for much of the year, but in the last five years has provided over 900,000 pounds of food to the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts.

The farm just closed for the year a few weeks ago (just ahead of a snowstorm this week, actually), but here are some pictures from this summer.

We go weekly in the summer to pick up our share, pick vegetables and flowers, and feed the chickens.  I've learned to plan meals around the produce that we get from the farm, and my husband has stocked our freezer with pesto from the basil he and my son picked. 

Many of the items for sale are marked with the distance the item traveled (i.e. our eggs might be labeled "10 miles"  because they came from a farm 10 miles away), and there are usually cookies and 'pedal powered' corn muffins for sale.  All summer we have bouquets like the one shown here.

This week the shareroom was turned into a Thanksgiving store, and I stood in line to buy organic cranberries, squash, and fifteen (yes, fifteen) farm-made pie crusts (0 miles) which we'll use for pies and quiches this winter.  We'll be thankful for the farm this winter every time we take one out of the oven.  Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

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[Nola]

I'm so thankful for all of the wonderful lactation consultants who so generously give their time and advice to complete strangers.

I can't tell you how many times I've called up women from La Leche League, lactation consultants that friends have recommended, used the free breast feeding clinic at the hospital, and the free breastfeeding support group at the pediatrician's office.

I would not have been able to breastfeed without these wonderful supportive women!

I also would not have been able to breastfeed without the help and support from my husband.

I'm thankful to live in an age where these resources exist and in a community where they are so openly available.

I know my mom breastfed us at a time when it was looked down on and I know she didn't have any of these resources available to her. Not even a breast pump. I'm thankful for mom too.