Call of the Reed Warbler

By: Charles Massy

Narrated by: Charles Massy

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 audiobook 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 2,000-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.

©2017 Charles Massy (P)2020 W. F. Howes Ltd

A real alternative to the mechanical mind

I heard Charles interviewed on ABC Australia's Late Nightt Live and downloaded this book

So called "modem agriculture" destroys the soil that it depends on for its existence and Charles shows us that instead agriculture can regenerate the soil

My family have been farming for 147 years and I am.embarassed by what we have done to the land

I was back at the farm recently and was horrified by the set stocking and the harm being done by the chemicals used

I only hope that more farmers will embrace regenerative agriculture before there simply isn't enough soil to feed everyone

The alternative is famine and despair and the loathing of our grandchildren

loved it - inspirational

Very positive, informative and thought provoking. I now feel well equipped to make a positive difference on my own farm and in my community

An excellent backgrounder on regenerative agricult

I am an Australian hobby farmer about to embark on the task of regenerating my 16 acres of overgrazed and nutrient poor soils. This is not a how to book but covers the history and principles of the various types of regenerative farming. At my stage in the process it was a perfect backgrounder, especially for an Austrlian context so a perfect read for me. Massy tells and fascinating story and narrates well. I would like to go back and read this again in a few years to refresh myself when I hopefully practicing many of these princples.