Join Scott Chaskey as he discusses his new book, Soil and Spirit. Learn why food sovereignty and humble attention to the Earth and its diversity of species can provide invaluable keys to building healthy human communities.
Following Chaskey’s reading will be a Q&A along with a book signing with copies of Soil and Spirit, provided by Canio’s Books.
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.