Call of the Reed Warbler - Charles Massy in conversation with Costa Georgiadis
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- Call of the Reed Warbler, with Charles Massy OAM
Author and radical farmer Charles Massy’s new book Call of the Reed Warbler explores transformative and regenerative agriculture and the vital connection between our soil and our health. According to Massy, we need a revolution - he believes that human health, our communities, and the very survival of the planet depend on it. Charles is coming to the Library to talk about how he believes a grassroots revolution 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.
Charles is in conversation with Costa Georgiadis, nature lover and host of ABC's Gardening Australia.
Filmed: State Library of New South Wales, Sat 9 Dec 2017
Supported by: The Saturday Paper, Friendly Farms
Timely and important work.
The Call of the Reed Warbler has opened many dimensions of learning for me. Thanks for the video which has helped deepen the knowledge. I am not sure how yet, but I want to help the revolution to gain pace. I trust my raised awareness, open mind and readiness to change will show the way. And biggest thanks to Charles Massy for imparting your learning in this wonderful book and for Costa to be involved and launch the book.
Thank you for sharing this knowledge with us Charlie and Costa. This approach needs to become the norm throughout farming, the burbs and cities in Australia.
Thank you - we have moved back to the farm are are looking to stream into regenerative agriculture.
at $113 a book and no audiobook, I'm not convinced David Holmgren wants his message out there.
Hi, thanks for your comment, although we're not sure how it ties into Call of the Reed Warbler? Are you referring to David Holmgren's 'RetroSuburbia'? This is a great read and available for whatever people choose to pay. Plus, there are lots of text-to-speech reader apps that should be able to voice the text for you. Hope you enjoy it! online.retrosuburbia.com/
@@FriendlyFarmsNetwork yeah, the mention the book early on, and the interviewer says something him wanting to get the message out.
Available to those who are willing to pay? It has ONE review in Amazon (that doesn't include any words) Apparently not a lot of people are willing to pay. Just sayin'. Seriously I'm not trolling... Just like, wow, that's an expensive book. Is it a serious "how to" manual? Call of the Reed Warbler is a reasonable price. 💚
LOL, the wisdom of the Reed Warbler is an inspiration to us all, to the entire Western and First World. We must let our homes be invaded by parasitic strangers and feed their young as they kill us off and crowd us out as they shriek out insolence and ungrateful abuse. All hail the Dodo Bird, and the Reed Warbler, our true teachers and moral paragons!
Massy’s heart is undoubtedly in the right place but there is a vast difference between supplying inner-city farmers markets and producing the food for our overpopulated planet. Always be suspicious of people spruiking simple solutions to complex problems.
He is not spruiking a simple solution, he is basically suggesting a return to nature. Get away from big business governing everything we do, all they want to do is make money, they could not care less how many people they affect badly or even kill with their chemicals. This country has been totally buggered by the current agriculture methods. Now it is killing humans and animals as well. The fact that human fertility is falling in Western countries is only the tip of the iceberg, check out how much the poisons are affecting the animals that we eat! Look at the number of immune diseases that Western societies are being subjected to, what is the cause of these? Gotta be very suspicious of the food we eat, full of poisons and lack of necessary nutrients that are no longer available in our soils, because all the top soils are gone, and the carbon has gone out of the soil, making it impossible for plants to extract the nutrients from the ground. I say ground because we no longer farm in soil.
I was a full-time grain farmer for most of my life Angus; I can tell you that technology has brought many benefits compared to the 'good old days' of my youth. We now have safer and more efficient machinery, we have more robust and efficient plant varieties, we have safer and cheaper fertilisers and chemicals.
When I was young, 'normal' soil erosion would now be considered horrendous (no zero-till then!), we used primitive methods to apply chemicals that were much more toxic than they are today (despite what you hear) and we ploughed the land (and frequently) with huge, diesel-guzzling, soil-compacting tractors.
So no, I'm not negative. I believe in progress to solve problems, not regression. I believe in proper, well researched and consensus- based science, not cherry-picked articles and personal anecdotes that pander to a particular ideology. @Munmurra Angus
Interesting discussion, but I'm having trouble understanding your argument.
For example, you acknowledge the benefits of zero-till but claim that;
Zero tillage 'kills biota' (it doesn't, relative to conventional tillage) see ref 1. below)
Zero tillage 'reduces soil carbon' (again, it doesn't, see ref 2)
Fertilisers 'bind' minerals (?)
References provided, but better look up some yourself, and see what the scientific consensus is.
Massy's views are not necessarily based on 'proven research'. If you take the time to take a deep dive on his references, many would make an undergraduate blush. The source for his serious claims regarding glyphosate for example, are all ultimately based on an article by Samsel and Seneff which has been widely discredited, even by the normally credulous Huffington Post (see ref 3).
Angus, I'm not in any way saying modern agriculture doesn't face serious challenges, but they are complex. We should approach the problems with facts, not feel-good and simplistic stroking of our biases.
1.www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167198785800039
2. www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016719870300196X
3. www.huffingtonpost.com/tamar-haspel/condemning-monsanto-with-_b_3162694.html
@Munmurra Angus
You understand he's a large scale rancher...?
@@peterthegreat3241 Really ? You say "no zero-till then!" and then say you ploughed the land.