Scott Chaskey: This Common Ground

(Sunday 8/28/2005 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM)

As Joan Gussow, author of This Organic Life, says of Scott Chaskey and his book: “CSA farmer, poet, and keeper of the land, Scott Chaskey, who here leads you wonderingly through a year on his South Fork farm, is just whom you would choose to grow your food: a soul who presses his cheek to the clover to see the first emerging garlic shoots, who celebrates the sight of monarch wings among the white blossoms of his buckwheat, and who, most importantly perhaps, does not allow his love/hate relationship with the temperamental tomato keep him from growing forty-four varieties anyway – seduced by such memory-infused names as Radiator Charlie’s Mortgage Lifter. This Common Ground is for eaters, growers, poets, and other wildlife.” Join us in the Hay Barn this Sunday as we welcome Scott Chaskey, Long Island farmer and author of This Common Ground: Seasons on an Organic Farm, for a thoughtful discussion of the book, farming, and the organic movement. Copies will be available for purchase & signing by the author at the event.