21 Manwaring Road
Shelter Island, NY 11964
United States
THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Join up by the Windmill at Sylvestor Manor to celebrate the publication of Soil and Spirit with a reading and conversation with author Scott Chaskey.
A pioneer of the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement, for thirty years Chaskey 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. Chaskey was also a founding Board Member of Sylvester Manor.
Scott Chaskey
Scott Chaskey is the author of Soil and Spirit. 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.
As a farmer with decades spent working in fields, Scott Chaskey has been shaped by daily attention to the earth. A leader in the international Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement, he has combined a longstanding commitment to food sovereignty and organic farming with a belief that humble attention to microbial life and diversity of species provides invaluable lessons for building healthy human communities.