Scott Chaskey

Gebundenes Buch

Soil and Spirit

Cultivation and Kinship in the Web of Life

Beschreibung

""Enlivened by decades of work in open fields washed by the salt spray of the Atlantic"-words that describe his prose as well as his vision of connectedness - Scott Chaskey has given us a book for our time: a seed of hope and regeneration in a time of widespread despair"--

Autor

Scott Chaskey is the author of Soil and Spirit. He is also the author of a memoir, This Common Ground: Seasons on an Organic Farm, and a book of nonfiction, Seedtime: On the History, Husbandry, Politics, and Promise of Seeds. His poetry, first printed in literary journals in the early seventies, has been widely published over four decades. A pioneer of the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement, for thirty years he cultivated more than sixty crops for the Peconic Land Trust at Quail Hill Farm in Amagansett, New York, one of the original CSAs in the country. He is past president of the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York, and was honored as Farmer of the Year in 2013. He was a founding board member for both the Center for Whole Communities, in Vermont, and Sylvester Manor Educational Farm, in Shelter Island, New York. He taught as a poet-in-the-schools for over two decades, and as an instructor for Antioch International and Friends World College in Southampton. Chaskey lives and works on the east end of Long Island, New York.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Milkweed Editions
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 137mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781571311979
• ISBN-10: 1571311971
• Artikelnr.: 64295382