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. Chaskeys observations reflect a doers respect for the rhetoric of the fields and a firsthand knowledge of the interdependence of soils, plants, animals, and humans. His contagious sense of wonder and artistic sensibility illustrate why planting and reaping are such an important part of what defines the human community and the human condition.
Like Joan Gussows This Organic Life or Verlyn Klinkenborgs The Rural Life, this inspirational evocation of a life spent working the earth is certain to become a classic of nature writing, as well as appealing to todays burgeoning organic lifestyle audience..
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