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Booklist― "In the last few decades, a growing movement toward pesticide and GMO-free farming practices has been blossoming throughout the world as a counterbalance to corporate-driven agribusinesses. Piggybacking on terms like sustainability and permaculture, veteran sheepherder and author Massy refers to these environmentally friendly methods as “regenerative agriculture,†and he offers inspiring testimony here on how he and many of his fellow food-growing Australians have transformed their farmlands by respecting the native ecosystems that surround them. In three richly informative sections, Massy recounts the background story of how aboriginal sustainable land use eventually gave way to what he calls mechanical agriculture practices; demonstrates how balancing five landscape functions, such as solar energy and water cycles, can revitalize the soil; and gives abundant examples of Aussie farmers, including himself, using these practices with great success….[Massy’s] message about the dire need for sustainability is one that all readers concerned about food and the environment should closely heed." Kirkus Reviews― "An Australian sheepherder and range specialist looks at his home's biotic communities and how to improve their health with a more thoughtful kind of agriculture. Arachnophobes take note: There's a reason you want to see a lot of spiders in the tall grass, for, as Massy (Breaking the Sheep's Back, 2011, etc.) instructs, it means that good things are happening. 'To sustain millions of spiders,' he writes, 'there must be a corresponding diversity in the food chain, and healthy landscape function above and below ground.' Such a healthy landscape, argues the author in considerable detail, cannot come about through what he calls the 'more-on' approach to agriculture, piling chemicals atop increasingly unproductive soil, but instead is the result of a ‘regenerative' agriculture that necessarily happens at a small scale. The larger scale is what modern agronomists insist is needed in order to feed a growing world population, but at a cost that may be too great. As Massy observes, a livestock grower will always seek to save the herd before saving the range, no matter how shortsighted that strategy may be in the end. The author's prose can be arid and technical at times, as when he writes, 'at a global level, non-regeneratively grazed livestock emissions are a huge source of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.' At others, he sounds like a modern butterflies-are-free avatar of Charles Reich: 'an Emergent mind combines elements of the previous Organic and Mechanical minds, but its true difference is an openness to the ongoing processes of emergence and self-organization.' The circularity aside, Massy's book is a useful small-is-beautiful argument for appropriate-level farming that people can do without massive machines or petrochemical inputs. Though less elegant than Wendell Berry and Wes Jackson, he certainly falls into their camp, and their readers will want to know Massy's work as well. A solid case for taking better care of the ground on which we stand."“Part lyrical nature writing, part storytelling, part solid scientific evidence, part scholarly research, part memoir, [this] book is an elegant manifesto, an urgent call to stop trashing the Earth and start healing it.â€â€•The Guardian“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. There is profound insight here, realized by thirty-five years of farming on the ancient, fragile soils of the Australian continent, discernment expressed with exquisite clarity, seasoned wisdom, and some breathtaking prose of poetic elegance. I believe it takes its place as the single most important book on agriculture today, one that will become a classic text.â€â€•Paul Hawken, author of Blessed Unrest; editor of Drawdown“I first met Charles Massy in 2015 when he visited the ranch of the Africa Centre for Holistic Management in Zimbabwe. Building on the work of many people, Massy has now written a compelling and comprehensive book on the importance of management being holistic―and how that will ultimately lead to a regenerative agriculture capable of restoring even the most degraded ecosystems and marginalized land in any climate and at any scale. He has done this with wonderful stories that take us on a journey of ecological literacy, supported by evocative insights into landscapes, science, and practical farming and living. Call of the Reed Warbler is a massive accomplishment and contribution to our collective work of building a new agriculture, a new Earth, and renewed human society and health.â€â€•Allan Savory, president of the Savory Institute“This book will change the way you think about food, farming, and the place of humans on the planet. Introducing us to leaders of the regenerative agriculture movement, Massy offers real hope that we may yet fashion a society that gives more than it takes.â€â€•Liz Carlisle, author of Lentil Underground; lecturer, School of Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University“Conceptually rich and filled with examples of diverse innovators, Call of the Reed Warbler is the most comprehensive and engaging book I’ve read on regenerative agriculture. Charlie Massy contends humans have morphed from an ‘Organic mind’ into a ‘Mechanical mind,’ which is now evolving into an ‘Emergent mind’―a change in consciousness that embraces self-organizing processes. He shows how the minds of the innovators in his book were opened to three key processes: First, they began to understand how landscapes function, how ecological system work, and how they are indivisibly connected. Second, they got out of the way to let nature repair, self-organize, and regenerate these functions. Third, they had the humility to ‘listen to their land,’ change, and continue to learn with that same openness. Massy concludes we can heal Earth, but only by transforming ourselves and our connections with the landscapes and communities in which we live. This book is a thoughtful step in that direction.â€â€•Fred Provenza, professor emeritus, Department of Wildland Resources, Utah State University; author of Nourishment“Charles Massy is a leader in the regenerative agriculture movement in Australia with a message of hope for everyone. Using his arid homeland as a touchstone, Massy thoughtfully counterbalances the damage done by industrial agriculture to our land and our prospects with evocative examples from around the world of a hopeful way forward. His beliefs are grounded in practical experience, his vision clear, and his words inspiring. Call of the Reed Warbler is a must-read!â€â€•Courtney White, author of Grass, Soil, Hope“Call of the Reed Warbler not only heralds the sound of an ecosystem functioning but also of a world awakening to regenerative agriculture. Charlie Massy is Australia’s equivalent to Thoreau and Leopold and a practical regenerative farmer to boot. I can’t think of anyone better equipped to pen a book like this, and to do so with such scholarship, integrity, and rollicking prose is a credit to Charlie and those whose journey he’s portrayed. Easily my ‘Book of the Year.’â€â€•Darren J. Doherty, founder, Regrarians Limited
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About the Author
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 Parkâ€. 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.
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Product details
Paperback: 528 pages
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing (September 11, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781603588133
ISBN-13: 978-1603588133
ASIN: 1603588132
Product Dimensions:
6 x 1.4 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
5.0 out of 5 stars
7 customer reviews
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This book is hefty in both weight and substance. At nearly 450 pages, it’s pretty long, but oh so worth the read. I would give it 6 stars if I could, so today it will have to settle for 5. I had high expectations going in, and they were substantially exceeded.Every once in a long while, a book comes along that EVERYONE should read – this is that book. If you’re a farmer of any kind, of course you really should read this book. But if you're an ecologist, a physician, or a dietician – read this book. And if you care about biodiversity, or climate change, or water, or birds, or just the future of human society – read this book. And even if all you do is just eat food, you should still read this book.Massy is an Australian sheep farmer who has woven a wise thread through the story of the past, present and future of human society in terms of how we have treated our lands. Most people conceptually grasp that civilization grew rapidly with the advent of agriculture, but many fail to recognize that the particular path we collectively chose long ago is now sinking our the Good Ship Earth somewhat quickly.Massy helps us see that the acceleration of industrial agriculture is not a recent phenomenon, but rather an amplification of the way we have thought for a very long time – the Mechanical Mindset. This mindset has done us great good, but now does us great harm at our interface with the natural world. He helps us see that our current food production system is only speeding faster and faster down a bumpy road towards a brick wall at a dead-end. After reading this book, we can see that our current pursuit of yield-above-all to feed the world has us at risk of both underachieving that goal, and quite possibly leaving us with no world to feed. As an old Mechanical Engineer and who not long ago strongly supported that direction, I stand guilty as charged.But Massy’s is explicitly a story of great hope. He shows how the small but growing community of regenerative farmers are producing more with less and doing good things for the rest of us in the process. The first ~2/3rds of the book is like a walk-about visiting an array of pioneering Australian farmers and land managers who have already run into the various brick walls of the road most followed, and found their way onto a new road. Their stories are organized by what he describes as the 5 primary landscape functions: solar energy, water, soil minerals, ecosystems, and the previously forgotten role of human-social systems. Although all are connected, by focusing on them one at a time, Massy helps us see how each plays a role in an overall system. Most of the stories are about reluctant pioneers, who, over decades, had to often tragically unlearn everything they thought they knew and replace it with a whole new way of thinking – the Emergent Mindset. Painfully, this includes Massy himself.In the Mechanical Mindset, nature is to be conquered and controlled. In the Emergent Mindset, nature needs only to be enabled. The foundation of this book is the stories of farmers who have discovered the power of the Emergent Mindset to bring back life – rapidly, richly and at scale.Although the benefits of the Emergent Mindset are myriad, hugely important is the benefit to the farmer him/herself. Through the story of real examples, we can see that regenerative agriculture – whether crop, or meat, or forestry or fiber - is not about sacrifice for some abstract greater good, but creates a system leading directly to increased farmer prosperity while also producing both more and better food and fiber. Massy also shows us that restoring farmer prosperity has many other benefits: more nutritious foods, restored water cycles, and putting carbon back to work in the cycle of life among them.But just when you think the book is done, it evolves into a much deeper and insightful synthesis. Massy helps us see that this different way of thinking can heal our lands, our bodies, and our society. Digging into the field of “complex adaptive systems,†he helps us understand that we should more rightfully see them as “complex creative systems†that don’t just respond the world around them, but in a two-way interaction, actually help the world around them unfold.Massy posits that just as agriculture catalyzed the earliest civilizations, it can once again lead us down a fundamentally different path for society as a whole. This book isn’t simply diagnostic, it’s a playbook for a bottoms-up revolution for the sake of planet Earth. By leading with regenerative agriculture, not only do we get better food, less sickness, clean water and clean air, but an Emergent Mind that grasps the co-creative complexities of nature is much better positioned to confront and solve the many other problems we face in society today.With the “Call of the Reed Warbler,†Massy is summoning forth a new era he believes was well labeled by Thomas Berry as the “Ecozoic†– a period in which humanity learns to work with nature instead of fighting it. I’m not sure the word resonates with me yet, but the idea is certainly right.If I look back to find a red thread through other landmark works, I can see that von Humboldt helped us see nature as a whole system, Leopold gave us a foundational ethic for interacting with this system, and Rachel Carson sounded the warning sirens that we were breaking those systems. Later, Jared Diamond helped us understand that although the land shapes the people, it’s how the people shape the land that determines their fate. Then, Michael Pollan presented a troubling dilemma about how what we eat is connected to how it is grown. Massy’s book is the insightful answer to the culmination of the implied questions presented by these renowned authors. In CotRW, he synthesizes the progress the few have already made in order to point the many to a new direction. I propose that Massy has shown us a plan whereby by eating our cake differently, we can not only still have it, but have more of it, too.This book is not about wheat or wool or timber, it’s about us – as a species and our role on this planet. Borrowing his closing words directly, Call of the Reed Warbler “resonates deeply, penetrating my soul.†In a world where we now know that the current way we grow food has decimated bird populations, I find the idea rightfully fitting that the call of a small bird might somehow summon forth a new direction for our planet.
A hugely inspiring boook of hiw farming and thinking needs to and can evolve into an ecological, sustainable and even spiritual practise which can transform food production, salinity, the effects of drought, the soil and wildlife stocks and help us link into a sense of being more deeply connected with ourselves, the earth, indigenous people and each other. The stories of individual farmers hugely increasing their food production along with their own health and happinness are breathtaking. The horrific details on the ever expanding use of chemical fertilisers and weedkillers (including the use of roundup as a 'drying agent' for grain crops (to allow earlier garvesting) is a nightmare reality which cannot be simply divorced from the increasing rates of chronic disease and mental instability from which we all suffer. The book prompted me to change to eating organic food where possible and regenerate my neglected veggie garden resulting immediately in curing my longstanding background complaint of indigestion and reflux! Many thanks Charles for the book.
Excellent, very informative
Charles digs into the landscape functions that can be addressed with regenerative ag.
A love letter to regenerative agriculture.
Charles Massy is a prominent breeder of Merino sheep, the star breed behind Australia's long dominant role in raw wool production, an industry that was initially driven by the supply demands of northern England's industrial textile revolution and whose colonial imposition trashed the ancient cultivation matrix developed by Australia's first people, the long term impacts of which Massy came to recognise as irreversibly degrading. Call of the Reed Warbler expands on his mature age PhD in Human Ecology at the Australian National University. It is also a much needed injection of practical yet still challenging optimism into the dawn of our awareness of the unfolding catastrophe of the Anthropocene.The story is emphatically grounded in complexity and emergence with the title and many chapter titles providing cryptic hooks with memorable messaging. It didn't hurt my reading that much of it was across the summer vacation just passed during which I was regularly recording the call of a Reed Warbler at dusk.(see Vimeo 258582621) Must also note that this review is being written together with a review of Clive Hamilton's Defiant Earth: The Fate of Humans in the Anthropocene which together paint an even more interesting picture. That said, there is a lot of work to be done to tilt the balance away from the vested interests in planetary exhaustion towards Massy and others' vision for practical regeneration.The book is organised into three very unequal parts, the second with five sub-sections covering what Massy identifies as five landscape functions, in all a total of 22 chapters. At least the first two of those landscape functions should be blatantly obvious to anyone with a modicum of general awareness, they and the others not just addressing but reversing the degradation of agricultural soils which are one of the most immediate threats to human viability. They also have the conceded downside of needing to take decadal views against the pressure from administrators and promoters of short-term interventions to stay on auto pilot year to year. The first of the two observes that the most efficient land use demands year round green cover to maximise capture of solar energy, with sequestration of CO2 a side benefit. The second is similarly about maximal retention of water in the landscape. Together they start a return to spongier soils which support mineral cycles and revival of microfauna, floral diversity and ultimately rich native fauna. An interesting twist is the idea that this can involve the ruminants that have long been implicated in soil degradation and greenhouse methane production by replacing conventional "set stocking" by fast rotation through small paddocks in the absence of natural predators to ensure choice vegetation is not eaten out. These imported replacement megafauna can help break up hard soil crusts and fertilise naturally.Starting with basic geological history of Gondwana, the book extends beyond Australia to other southern continents and shares some lessons from North America. Massy then attributes the rise of the always oversimplifying mechanical mind to the rise of agriculture in the global north before telling much of the story through the particular experience of influential farmers' local experience of employing regenerative methods, usually in response to a sufficient crisis to enable them to see past the flood of misinformation from those dependent on maintaining current destructive practice. Massy adds a vital fifth landscape component to the set promoted by other advocates, that of the human role, recognising the importance of natural health to human wellbeing as well as the need to let nature's self-organisation do its job. Healthy soils can be co-created and Reed Warblers can return.This book provides powerful ammunition for those who understand that more of the same won't work, but the challenge will be to get it into the hands and heads of those who are surviving year to year through the systemic degradation it challenges. The prescription should help address epidemic farmer suicides and amplify recent trends to start valuing indigenous knowledge. It may also help regenerate a viable agriculture which supports humans and Reed Warblers. Massy's final part paints all that into a bigger picture.
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