This week we speak with Scott Chaskey, a farmer, poet, author, and pioneer of the CSA movement. His latest book, Soil and Spirit, explores our connection and kinship with nature through farming and storytelling. In this wide ranging conversation we explore the history of community supported agriculture (CSA) in North America, the spread of CSA’s around the world, land trusts and the concepts of “ownership” and “the commons”, and the many ways in which we are deeply connected with all living things. 

Soil And Spirit by Scott Chaskey http://milkweed.org/book/soil-and-spirit 

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Timestamps

[3:21] Shi-Yan and CSA movement in China

[10:38] Origins of CSA in the US \ Quail Hill Farm

[13:13] Land Trust and CSA relationship

[18:45] NOT owning the farm \ concept of “the commons” in Europe

[27:40] Learning to garden in England

[36:26] The Quail Hill Farm CSA, one of the first in the US

[54:15] Scott’s book Soil And Spirit \ Kinship with nature 

[1:04:48] Hand tools \ BCS history \ Tractors

[1:15:09] Current state of the CSA movement

[1:26:39] The word “peasant”

[1:33:39] Rivers and mountains poetry tradition / Gary Snyder poet

[1:37:13] The Tree by John Fowles

[1:39:10] Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard \ The Overstory by Richard Powers

[1:46:54] Navajo word Hózhǫ́

[1:49:05] Community questions

[1:53:32] In Paradise by Peter Matthiessen

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