{"title":"Scott Chaskey","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiscover the poetic world of \u003cem\u003eScott Chaskey\u003c\/em\u003e, a celebrated author renowned for his profound connection to nature and his illuminating insights into the human spirit. Chaskey's works elegantly weave together themes of agriculture, community, and the environment, resonating deeply with readers who cherish the beauty of both art and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAmong his notable contributions is \u003cem\u003eSoil and Spirit\u003c\/em\u003e, a captivating exploration of the interplay between humanity and the earth. In this captivating book, Chaskey delves into the rhythms of nature, illustrating how deeply intertwined our lives are with the land that sustains us. Through vivid storytelling and reflective essays, he encourages readers to reconnect with the pulse of the natural world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePlunge into the heartfelt prose and philosophical reflections of Scott Chaskey's collections. Whether you are a nature enthusiast or someone seeking a thoughtful meditation on our shared environment, these books provide a transcendent narrative that bridges the gap between arts and culture and the living world around us.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"soil-and-spirit-by-scott-chaskey-9781639550890","title":"Soil and Spirit","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlong 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEnlivened by decades of work in open fields washed by the salt spray of the Atlantic—words that describe his prose as well as his vision of connectedness—Scott Chaskey has given us a book for our time. A seed of hope and regeneration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47362996601068,"sku":"9781639550890","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/20584813482771.jpg?v=1772910038"},{"product_id":"soil-and-spirit-by-scott-chaskey-9781571311979","title":"Soil and Spirit","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a farmer with decades spent working in fields, Scott Chaskey has been shaped by daily attention to the earth. 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