Interview
Uncommon Sense: Why Regenerative Agriculture Is The Solution To Some Of Our Biggest Crises
Regenerative farmer and author Charles Massey joins the program to discuss the ideas presented in his (recently updated and re-released) book,
Call Of The Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture, A New Earth. In this long-form interview, Charles and host Amy Mullins reflect on the highly successful range of practices involved in regenerative agriculture and just what can be achieved with it. This is as compared with our predominant industrial agricultural system that is rooted in modern day capitalism and colonial farming practices brought across from Europe. These industrial practices came from post-Enlightenment ideas of control and domination over the landscape and still inform many farming practices today, for example, “when you over-clear your woodlands and overgraze your deep-rooted grasses, salt rises. We now have millions of hectares of dry-land salinity and it’s increasing.�