Infinite growth on a finite planet

While the Chelsea write-up is fresh in my mind, I wanted to re-broadcast this one bit:

Taylor runs the Free Verse Farm with her husband Misha Johnson, growing most of their own food as well as produce and herbal products they sell at the cooperative Free Verse Farm Shop in Chelsea Village, in what I am told is the longest continually operating storefront in Vermont. (They are also growing a son.) 

I found the somewhat oxymoronic use of “free” in the name of the shop fitting, as the store clearly exists to serve its suppliers and customers more than profit. One encouraging sign for the survival of civilization is that “capitalism” has begun to connote—in mainstream discourse, for the first time in my life—a particular economic and political system, rather than an inevitable state of affairs, a point of patriotism, and an inseparable aspect of the concept of an open society.   

Just outside the frame of the photo here, there was a milk crate full of free loaves of bread set out the evening of our concert.