Call of the Reed Warbler
A New Agriculture, A New Earth
by Charles Massy
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Pub Date Sep 18 2018 | Archive Date Sep 01 2018
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Description
“Part lyrical nature writing. . . . part solid scientific evidence . . . part memoir, [this] book is an elegant manifesto, an urgent call to stop trashing the Earth and start healing it.”—The Guardian
Meet the visionary farmer who is revolutionizing the way we grow, eat, and think about food.
In Call of the Reed Warbler, Charles Massy tells the story of how a grassroots revolution in regenerative agriculture can help reduce and reverse climate change, build healthy people and healthy communities, and ultimately save the planet.
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 lays out the facts behind industrial agriculture and the profit-obsessed global corporations driving it. With evocative stories he shows how other innovative and courageous farmers are finding a new way.
For farmers, backyard gardeners, food buyers, health workers, policy makers, and public leaders alike, Call of the Reed Warbler offers a powerful and moving paean of hope.
It’s not too late to regenerate the earth. This book shows the way forward for the future of our food supply, our health, and our planet.
Advance Praise
‘Sun, soil, water, fire, carbon: this book addresses the future of life – plant, animal and human. It explains how regenerative agriculture rescues and resurrects decayed land. Profound, complex, anecdotal, it wants to change the world. It could be the most important book you will ever read.’ --Bill Gammage, author of The Biggest Estate on Earth
‘This is a marvellous book, full of wonder and wisdom, and is both visionary and deeply practical. . . . Charles Massy is an Australian Rachel Carson, our Aldo Leopold of the Monaro. A magnificent achievement.’ --Tom Griffiths, Professor of History, Australian National University
‘Whether you work the land or benefit from the food and fibre it produces, you should read this important book. It is written with passion and clarity, describing and analysing the revolution in thinking about our land that could make farming and grazing sustainable.’ --Ian Lowe, author of The Lucky Country? and Bigger or Better
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781603588133 |
| PRICE | $24.95 (USD) |
