| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
243 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-237). |
| Summary |
"As a farmer with decades spent working in fields, Scott Chaskey has been shaped by daily attention to the earth. A leader in the international Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement, he has combined a longstanding commitment to food sovereignty and organic farming with a belief that humble attention to microbial life and diversity of species provides invaluable lessons for building healthy human communities. Along the way, even while planning rotations of fields, ordering seeds, tending to crops and their ecosystems, Chaskey was writing. And in this lively collection of essays, he explores the evolution of his perspective--as a farmer and as a poet. Tracing the first stage in his development back to a homestead in Maine, on the ancestral lands of the Abenaki, he recalls learning to cultivate plants and nourish reciprocal relationships among species, even as he was reading Yeats and beginning to write poems. He describes cycling across Ireland, a surprise meeting with Seamus Heaney, and, later, farming in Cornwall's ancient landscape of granite, bramble, and windswept trees. He travels to China for an international conference on Community Supported Agriculture, reading ancient wilderness poetry along the way, and then on to the pueblo of Santa Clara in New Mexico, where he joins a group of Indigenous women harvesting amaranth seeds. Closer to home on the Southfork of Long Island, he describes planting redwood saplings and writing verse under the canopy of an American beech."--Amazon. |
| Contents |
Inexhaustible ways of seeing -- Tongues in trees, books in the running brooks -- A care for words -- In the season of grain rain -- Older than thought -- Cultura -- A strong song -- Juana's orange, Elena's red -- The remembered earth -- Grains of a great web -- The mounting sap -- Filters of the earth. |
| Subject |
Chaskey, Scott.
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Organic farming.
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Environmentalism.
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NATURE / General.
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Chaskey, Scott (OCoLC)fst01600554
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Environmentalism (OCoLC)fst00913543
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Organic farming (OCoLC)fst01047688
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| Genre/Form |
poetry. (CStmoGRI)aatgf300055931
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Biographies (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Essays (OCoLC)fst01919922
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Poetry (OCoLC)fst01423828
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Essays.
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Poetry.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Chaskey, Liam, illustrator.
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| ISBN |
9781571311979 hardcover |
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1571311971 hardcover |
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9781639550890 paperback |
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1639550895 paperback |
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