This Common Ground Seasons on an Organic Farm

Name: This Common Ground Seasons on an Organic Farm
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ISBN: 9780143037064

ISBN-10: 0143037064

ISBN-13: 9780143037064

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Authors: Scott Chaskey

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In the tradition of Michael Pollan, Joan Gussow, and Verlyn Klinkenborgs The Rural Life, This Common Groundis an inspirational evocation of a life lived close to the earth, written by the head farmer at one of the countrys first community-supported farms. By reflecting on four seasons of activity at his beloved Quail Hill Farm in eastern Long Island, Scott Chaskey offers stirring insight into the connections between land and the human family. Whether writing about the voice of a small wren nesting in the lemon balm or a meadow of oats, millet, and peas rising to silver and green after a fresh rain, this poet-farmers contagious sense of wonder brings us back to our bond with the soil.

Book details

List price: $24.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/2/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.10" wide x 7.70" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



Introduction


Prologue: A Wind from the Sea


Spring


Serpent Garlic


Shining Furrows


"Nothing Is So Beautiful as Spring"


Nests Everywhere


"Teelin' Taties"


The Invisible String


"Smile, for Your Lover Comes"


Behold This Compost!


"Surprised by Joy, Impatient as the Wind"


Summer


A Load of Hay, a Silver Spoon


"The Faintly Visible Traces"


A Seamless Garment


Equanimity


The Wolf's Peach


Erutan


Beeping at Crows


Arc of the Invisible


Autumn


The Wanderer


"Sing Huzzah for the Life of the Soiled Worm!"


"Soils Are Beautiful!"


Meadow Music


The Saw-whet's Wings


To Provide Some Harmony


"The Sweet Influences of the Pleiades"


"The Atmosphere I Wanted to Be In"


Winter


Ribbon, Stone, Shell, and Bone


Flashes of Ice and Carbon


"Food with a Place, a Face, and a Taste"


In the Circle at the Center


"The Spirit Unseen"


Spring


One Among Many


A Letter


Afterword


Cadence


Acknowledgments


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