Call of the reed warbler
Subtitle: a new agriculture, a new Earth
By: Charles Massy
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 569
ISBN-13: 9780702253416
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Sustainable agriculture; Agriculture; Food supply
Description: "Is it too late to regenerate the earth? This groundbreaking 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."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 514-557) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Into the Anthropocene; title: Part II. Regenerating the five landscape functions; title: Part III. Transforming ourselves - transforming Earth.