MONARO region farmer and merino stud wool producer, Charles Massy, will be launching his latest book, Call of the Reed Warbler, at Skillset’s Flannery Centre in Bathurst at 5pm on Wednesday.
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Dr Massy’s book is about the increasing challenges of modern industrial farming throughout the world – how to use less fuel, less chemicals and less water to produce food and fibre for Australians and to meet export targets in a drying climate. It is a manual for farmers who want to regenerate their land, reduce costs and improve their farms for the next generations.
Massy examines farming techniques around the world, starting over 10,000 years ago, and has identified five basic landscape functions we need to consider if Australian farming is to thrive.
The five functions are:
- Capturing sunlight for maximum growth, storing water in soils and preventing run-off.
- Increasing soil quality and potential using the available natural minerals and chemicals.
- Creating maximum biodiversity on farms.
- Educating people, using a wide range of scientific studies, to realise how important a healthy environment is to our survival.
- Understanding how nature works.
Massy is saying our use of agricultural chemicals has increased since the 1950’s and since then we are seeing a huge increase in chronic diseases. He explodes the myth that we have to continue to kill plants with increasing amounts of chemicals to grow plants.
Books Plus will have The Call of the Reed Warbler for sale at the launch.
For more information, contact John Fry at Skillset 0429 469 476.
