Poet, Farmer & Educator
Farmer, poet, and pioneer of the community farming movement, Scott Chaskey is the kind of progressive thinker that doesn't come around often. Weaving together his passion for farming and prose, Scott has penned multiple books on the community farming movement, creating a road-map for Americans who want to live off the land as a community."
- from "Here’s the Thing," host Alec Baldwin.
WHAT’S New
from MILKWEED EDITIONS:
Soil and Spirit
Cultivation and Kinship in the Web of Life
“Soil and Spirit is truly a feast.
Scott Chaskey celebrates the emergence of beauty,
nourishment, and community from the earth.”
—JOHN ELDER
audiobook narrated by scott chaskey
Media
podcast interviews
here’s the thing with alec baldwin
Scott Chaskey is America's Favorite Farmer
Feb 21, 2017
The Market Gardener Podcast with JM Fortier
episode 15 - pioneer of the csa movement in north america /
scott chaskey, author of soil and spirit
oct 31, 2024
Amber Waves FarmCAST
episode 11 - Scott Chaskey on Mentorship and Making New Farmers
oct 14, 2025
SPIRIT OF LEADERSHIP WITH MEGAN CHASKEY
interconnection: a journey through soil and spirit with scott chaskey
May 24, 2023
Nature Revisited
Episode 104 - Scott Chaskey - Soil and Spirit
FARMER TO FARMER PODCAST with Chris Blanchard
episode 152 - Scott Chaskey of Quail Hill Farm on Thirty Years of
a Member-Harvested CSA, Land Trusts, and Making Time for Poetry
jan 4, 2018
SCOTT CHASKEY
regularly appears as a public speaker—for readings and keynote addresses—
at highlight events in the vital ecological movement
selected Appearances
The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, Hamden, CT., 2025—The Samuel W. Johnson Memorial Lecture
East Hampton Garden Club, East Hampton, NY, 2025—“Soil and Spirit”
Bridgehampton Museum, Bridgehampton, NY, 2025—“Best of All Things is Water,” with Megan Chaskey
Amber Waves Farm, Amagansett, NY, 2025—Podcast, “CSA Explained”
Long Pond Greenbelt Nature Center, Bridgehampton, NY, 2025—“Grains of a Great Web”
Envirovideo.org, “Enviro Close-up,” 2024, subject of an environmental program
Hamptons DocFest, Southampton, NY, 2024—“Cultivating Connections: Soils, Farms, Food”
Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY, 2024—“Soil and Spirit”
Northshire Books, Manchester, VT., 2024—“Soil and Spirit”
Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society, & West Tisbury Library, West Tisbury, Ma., 2024—“The Remembered Earth”
The Market Gardener Podcast with J.M. Fortier, Stanbridge East, Quebec, Canada, 2024—Episode 15: “Pioneer of the CSA Movement in North America”
Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons, Bridgehampton, NY, 2023—“Soil and Spirit”
Flying Cloud Books, Easton, Md., 2023, “Soil and Spirit”
The Church, Sag Harbor, NY, 2023, “Soil and Spirit”
Minneapolis Farmers’ Market, Minneapolis, MN., 2023—“Soil and Spirit”
Southampton History Museum, Southampton, NY, 2022—Readings from a South Fork Author
Bridgehampton Museum, Bridgehampton, NY, 2022—Distinguished Lecturer Series
WPKN, “Sustainable Long Island,” Bridgeport, Conn., 2020
LTV, “Environment Long Island,” hosted by Karl Grossman, East Hampton, NY, 2020
Canio’s Books, Sag Harbor, NY—poetry and prose readings 1983 - 2019
Oak Spring Garden Foundation (Bunny Melon’s former estate), “Innovations for Seed Access,” Upperville, Va., 2019
Albuquerque Museum, “Seed: Climate Change Resilience,” Albuquerque, N.M., 2019
International CSA Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2018
Cooper Union, “Our Common Home, Celebrating Pope Francis’ Encyclical on Climate Change & Social Justice,” 2016
International Seed Library Forum, Tucson, Arizona, May 2015
National Heirloom Expo, Santa Rosa, Ca., September 2015
International CSA Conference, Beijing, China, November 2015
Cooper Union, The Great Hall, NY, “Voices of Hope in a Time of Crisis,” 2014