num_pages: 448
description: Is it too late to regenerate the earth? Call of the Reed Warbler shows the way forward for the future of our food supply our Australian landscape and our planet. This ground-breaking book will change the way we think of farm and grow food. Author and radical farmer Charles Massy explores transformative and regenerative agriculture and the vital connection between our soil and our health. It is a story of how a grassroots revolution  a true underground insurgency  can save the planet help turn climate change around and build healthy people and healthy communities pivoting significantly on our relationship with growing and consuming food. Using his personal experience as a touchstone  from an unknowing chemical-using farmer with dead soils to a radical ecologist farmer carefully regenerating a 2000-hectare property to a state of natural health  Massy tells the real story behind industrial agriculture and the global profit-obsessed corporations driving it. He shows  through evocative stories  how innovative farmers are finding a new way and interweaves his own local landscape its seasons and biological richness. At stake is not only a revolution in human health and our communities but the very survival of the planet. For farmer backyard gardener food buyer health worker policy maker and public leader alike Call of the Reed Warbler offers a tangible path forward for the future of our food supply our Australian landscape and our earth. It comprises a powerful and moving paean of hope.
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title: Call of the Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture – A New Earth
publisher: University of Queensland Press