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The author chronicles a year at Quail Hill Farm, an organic community farm, where he has worked as land steward and farmer, offering his observations on farm life, nature, wildlife, changing seasons, and community.

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I don’t think there’s anything as hopeful as patience, and it is patience that supports poet and farmer Scott Chaskey’s reflections on leaving England for a small Long Island land trust and helping it grow into one of the first community-supported agriculture (CSA) farms in the United States.

Seasons, patience, and a love of land and words have created a fertile farm and a thriving human community alongside an abundance of birds and wildlife. I return to this book every decade or so (I’ve had it for that long), when I think I know my life but what I truly…

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