Dr. Joyce Novak Program Director, Peconic Estuary Partnership

Protecting and restoring the Peconic Estuary and its watershed

The Peconic Estuary Study Area consists of more than 100 distinct bays, harbors, embayments, and tributaries and includes more than 125,000 land acres and 158,000 surface water acres.


 The watershed is comprised of the five East End Towns - Southampton, East Hampton, Shelter Island, Southold and Riverhead in addition to a small portion of Brookhaven Town on the western edge of the watershed.


Host Francesca Rheannon talks with Dr. Joyce Novak of the Peconic Estuary Partnership

Listen here

Dr. Joyce Novak Program Director, Peconic Estuary Partnership

Protecting and restoring the Peconic Estuary and its watershed

The Peconic Estuary Study Area consists of more than 100 distinct bays, harbors, embayments, and tributaries and includes more than 125,000 land acres and 158,000 surface water acres.


 The watershed is comprised of the five East End Towns - Southampton, East Hampton, Shelter Island, Southold and Riverhead in addition to a small portion of Brookhaven Town on the western edge of the watershed.


Host Francesca Rheannon talks with Dr. Joyce Novak of the Peconic Estuary Partnership

Listen here

Scott Chaskey - Poetry and Prose

Organic farming pioneer Scott Chaskey is the retired director of the Quail Hill farm in Amagansett, New York that he led for 30 years.

He was a founding member of the New York chapter of NOFA. the Northeast Farming Association  

Scott Chaskey is also a poet and a writer of works on organic agriculture.

In April 2020 in celebration of Earth Day, Scott Chaskey read from his poetry and prose at an on-line session in the series produced by Canios Cultural Café.

Here is Scott Chaskey:

The full reading will be posted here soon.

Published works by Scott Chaskey  include:

This Common Ground Seasons on an Organic Farm Penguin Putnam, 2006

Seedtime: On the History Husbandry Politics & Promise of Seeds, Rodale Press, 2014

Scott Chaskey - Poetry and Prose

Organic farming pioneer Scott Chaskey is the retired director of the Quail Hill farm in Amagansett, New York that he led for 30 years.

He was a founding member of the New York chapter of NOFA. the Northeast Farming Association  

Scott Chaskey is also a poet and a writer of works on organic agriculture.

In April 2020 in celebration of Earth Day, Scott Chaskey read from his poetry and prose at an on-line session in the series produced by Canios Cultural Café.

Here is Scott Chaskey:

The full reading will be posted here soon.

Published works by Scott Chaskey  include:

This Common Ground Seasons on an Organic Farm Penguin Putnam, 2006

Seedtime: On the History Husbandry Politics & Promise of Seeds, Rodale Press, 2014