Join Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt for a Reading by Scott Chaskey, Author of Soil and Spirit
Sunday, May 18, 2:00 p.m.
Long Pond Greenbelt Nature Center
1061 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike
We are thrilled to have Scott Chaskey join us as our Sundays at Two speaker on Sunday, May 18. Scott will read a chapter from his most recent book, Soil and Spirt (specifically a chapter about a ramble through the Long Pond Greenbelt), and then lead us in an informal discussion.
About Scott Chaskey
Scott Chaskey is a poet, farmer, and educator. For 30 years he cultivated soil and community for the Peconic Land Trust at Quail Hill Farm in Amagansett, New York, one of the original community-supported agriculture (CSA) programs in the country. Past president of the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York, he was honored as Farmer of the Year in 2013. He has served as a founding Board member for the Center for Whole Communities, in Vermont, Sylvester Manor Educational Farm, Shelter Island, New York, and the Peter Matthiessen Center, Sagaponack, New York. He is the author of This Common Ground (Viking, 2005), Seedtime, On the History, Husbandry, Politics, and Promise of Seeds (Rodale, 2014), Stars are Suns (Stoneman, 1995), and most recently, Soil and Spirit (Milkweed Editions, 2023). He lives in Sag Harbor with his wife Megan Chaskey, poet and musician, in the home in which they raised three children.
