I've been cogitating a lot lately about how the success of economies and capitalistic endeavors are typically measured, to wit: economic output is calculated by profits made or by resources converted to saleable goods. So when you look at our small family farms in the San Juan Islands and around the world in terms of economic "output", they seem insignificant - by the standard of capitalism, we're negligible...laughable, even. I'm thinking that it's time to reconsider the w