Soil and Spirit: Cultivation and Kinship in the Web of Life Chaskey Scott
Soil and Spirit: Cultivation and Kinship in the Web of Life Chaskey Scott As a farmer with decades spent working in fields, Scott Chaskey has been shaped by daily attention to the earth. And in this…
Specifikacia Soil and Spirit: Cultivation and Kinship in the Web of Life Chaskey Scott
Soil and Spirit: Cultivation and Kinship in the Web of Life Chaskey Scott
As a farmer with decades spent working in fields, Scott Chaskey has been shaped by daily attention to the earth. And in this lively collection of essays, he explores the evolution of his perspective--as a farmer and as a poet. 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.
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
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Growth of the Soil