Mill City Farmers Market
750 S 2nd St
Minneapolis, MN 5401
United States
This event is free and open to the public.
Meet poet-farmer Scott Chaskey, author of Soil and Spirit: Cultivation and Kinship in the Web of Life, at the Mill City Farmers Market in Minneapolis!
10:30am Reading from the author at the Guthrie stairs
11:00am Soil and Spirit book signing at the Milkweed Books table
This event takes place at the Mill City Farmers Market. It is free and open to the public.
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.
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.