Georgetown Peabody Library

Call of the reed warbler, a new agriculture, a new earth, Charles Massy

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrationsplates

index present

non fiction

Call of the reed warbler

bibliography

1035822755

Charles Massy

a new agriculture, a new earth

"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."--, Provided by publisher

Into the anthropocene. A Gondwanan ark ; Emergence of the mechanical mind -- Regenerating the five landscape functions. An indivisible, dynamic whole -- Regenerating the solar-energy function. An upside-down world ; Out of Africa ; Make mistakes but don't do nothing -- Regenerating the water cycle. Water, water everywhere ; Call of the reed warbler -- Regenerating the soil-mineral cycle. From stardust to stardust ; Farming without farming ; Dancing under the moon -- Regenerating dynamic ecosystems. Keep a green bough in your heart ; Blessed are the meek ; Listen to the land -- Regenerating the landscape: role of the human- social. A mysterious dialogue ; Design with nature ; Agri-climate: source of a healthy culture, society and Mother Earth -- Transforming ourselves- transforming Earth. The big picture: Co-creating with landscapes ; Transforming ourselves ; Healing Earth ; Healing ourselves ; Towards an emergent future