This is nothing to do with writing or habits, but at about 12:45 Eastern today, I’ll be on VPR’s Vermont Edition talking to host Jane Lindholm about the new CSA Matchmaker on our Web site, which helps Champlain Valley residents find the perfect CSA. In case you’re not familiar with the term, a CSA (“Community Supported Agriculture”) is an arrangement with a farmer to pre-pay for a season’s worth of food, often picked up weekly. The CSA member gets a good deal on great local food, and the farmer gets financial stability and regular customers. If you know anyone in the area who might benefit from joining a CSA, please send them over to the site. We’re coming up on 1,000 visits so far based on word of mouth, an article in the Free Press, and other exposure, so I think it’s working.

Anyway, I’ll be talking a little bit about the CSA Matchmaker and Localsourcers. In future we plan to expand the CSA Matchmaker to many other areas, and on May 1st we’ll be launching the Localsourcers Online Forum, a community for anyone anywhere interested in sharing information and connecting about local resources, local food, sustainability, and resilience. Come join Localsourcers (free) if you’re interested in taking part.

Later addition: here’s the link to the segment.

Mark Lipinski

When I look at the show Mark runs, I have to be impressed. Mark edits several craft magazines and yet does this radio show once a week where he has a number of guests whose work he seems to know well. He clearly had delved into my book with a will and asked some great questions. How do you do that with six people a week? Interestingly, Mark characterizes himself as a procrastinator. Maybe he’s just the kind of person who initiates so many projects, sometimes it’s hard to choose which one to proceed with? If so, he and I would have that in common. I’ve been enjoying the process of narrowing down my focus to one major project at a time, though. More on that in past and future posts.