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“Charles Massy has written a definitive masterpiece that takes its place along with the writings of Aldo Leopold, Wendell Berry, Masanobu Fukuoka, Humberto Maturana, and Michael Pollan. No work has more brilliantly defined regenerative agriculture and the breadth of its restorative impact upon human health, biodiversity, climate, and ecological intelligence." —Paul Hawken

In Call of the Reed Warbler, Charles Massy explores regenerative agriculture and the vital connection between our soil and our health.

It is the story of how a grassroots revolution—a true underground insurgency—can save the planet, help reduce and reverse climate change, 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. With evocative stories, he shows how other innovative and courageous farmers are finding a new way.

At stake is not only a revolution in human health and in our communities, but the very survival of the planet. For farmers, backyard gardeners, food buyers, health workers, policy makers, and public leaders alike, Call of the Reed Warbler offers a tangible path forward and a powerful and moving paean of hope.

It’s not too late to regenerate the earth. Call of the Reed Warbler shows the way forward for the future of our food supply, our planet, and our health.

ISBN-13: 9781603588133

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing

Publication Date: 09-11-2018

Pages: 528

Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.40(d)

Charles Massy gained a Bachelor of Science at Australian National University (ANU) in 1976 before going farming for 35 years and developing the prominent Merino sheep stud “Severn Park”. Concern at ongoing land degradation and humanity’s sustainability challenge led him to return to ANU in 2009 to undertake a PhD in Human Ecology. Charles was awarded an Order of Australia Medal for his service as chair and director of a number of research organizations and statutory wool boards. He has also served on national and international review panels in sheep and wool research and development and genomics. Charles has authored several books on the Australian sheep industry, the most recent being the widely acclaimed Breaking the Sheep’s Back, which was short-listed for the Prime Minister’s Australian Literary Awards in Australian History in 2012. Nicolette Hahn Niman served as senior attorney for Waterkeeper Alliance, running their campaign to reform the concentrated production of livestock and poultry. In recent years, she has gained a national reputation as an advocate for sustainable food production and improved farm-animal welfare. She is the author of Righteous Porkchop and Defending Beef, and has written for numerous publications, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, HuffPost, and The Atlantic online. She lives on a ranch in Northern California with her husband, Bill Niman, and their two sons.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix

Introduction: From the Ground Up 1

Part I Into the Anthropocene

1 A Gondwanan Ark 11

2 Emergence of the Mechanical Mind 30

Part II Regenerating the Five Landscape Functions

3 An Indivisible, Dynamic Whole 47

Regenerating the Solar-Energy Function

4 An Upside-Down World 58

5 Out of Africa 72

6 Make Mistakes but Don't Do Nothing 89

Regenerating the Water Cycle

7 Water, Water Everywhere 104

8 Call of the Reed Warbler 122

Regenerating the Soil-Mineral Cycle

9 From Stardust to Stardust 145

10 Farming without Farming 166

11 Dancing under the Moon 194

Regenerating Dynamic Ecosystems

12 Keep a Green Bough in Your Heart 212

13 Blessed Are the Meek 230

14 Listen to the Land 251

Regenerating the Landscape: Role of the Human-Social

15 A Mysterious Dialogue 275

16 Design with Nature 294

17 Agri-Culture: Source of a Healthy Culture, Society and Mother Earth 313

Part III Transforming Ourselves - Transforming Earth

18 The Big Picture: Co-Creating with Landscapes 333

19 Transforming Ourselves 356

20 Healing Earth 382

21 Healing Ourselves 398

22 Towards an Emergent Future 430

Acknowledgements 447

Bibliography 452

Notes 477

Index 495