This Common Ground: Seasons on an Organic Farm

Since 1990, Scott Chaskey has worked as a land steward and farmer for the Peconic Land Trust at Quail Hill Farm in Amagansett, New York, an organic community farm. Over the years, he has recorded his meditations on weather, wildlife, soil, seed, root, plant and flower and in "This Common Ground, he has organized some of these reflections season by season, through the course of one year on the farm. Chaskey's observations reflect a doer's respect for the rhetoric of the fields and a first-hand knowledge of the interdependence of soils, plants, animals and humans. His contagious sense of wonder and artistic sensibility illustrates why planting and reaping are such an important part of what defines the human community and the human condition. Like Joan Gussow's "This Organic Life or Verlyn Klinkenborg's "The Rural Life, this inspirational evocation of a life spent working the earth is sure to fascinate today's burgeoning organic lifestyle audience.Chaskey, Scott is the author of 'This Common Ground: Seasons on an Organic Farm' with ISBN 9780670034291 and ISBN 0670034290.