num_pages: 224
description: 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 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 Gussow’s This Organic Life or Verlyn Klinkenborg’s 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 today’s burgeoning organic lifestyle audience.
language: English
title: This Common Ground: Seasons on an Organic Farm
titlecomplete: This Common Ground: Seasons on an Organic Farm
genres: Gardening, Nonfiction, Food
ratings_count: 131
publisher: Viking Adult