Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons Lecture Series

SEEDTIME On the History, Husbandry, Politics, and Promise of Seeds

Scott Chaskey is a poet, farmer, and educator. For a quarter century he has grown garlic, greens, potatoes, and sixty other crops for the Peconic Land Trust at Quail Hill Farm in Amagansett. He learned to garden in the Cotswolds and on the Penwith peninsula of Cornwall, England, where he lived with his family for 10 years. A pioneer of the Community Supported Agriculture movement, he is past president of the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York, and was honored as Farmer of the Year in 2013. He received the Long House Reserve “Gold Medal for Excellence in Horticulture” in 2002, and was a founding Board member of the Center for Whole Communities, in Vermont, and Sylvester Manor Educational Farm, Shelter Island, NY. Viking published THIS COMMON GROUND, a memoir, in 2005, and SEEDTIME, On the History, Husbandry, Politics, and Promise of Seeds, was released by Rodale in 2014. He lives in Sag Harbor with his wife, the poet Megan Chaskey, where they raised three children, and he is presently at work on a book about the sculptor, his father-in-law, William King.