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"We can take on land that's fairly run down and start to turn it around. Instead of chemical fertilisers, pesticides and herbicides, the couple have adapted their big machines to spray a combination of worm juice and compost extract to coat the seeds, enrich the soil and boost the plants' immune system. Massy travelled to the Western Australian wheatbelt region three hours north of Perth to meet Ian and Di Haggerty.
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As part of his thesis, he interviewed 80 of the top regenerative farmers, hearing stories of remarkable turnarounds in landscapes, birdsong and lives. He sold only half the farm and began studying regenerative agriculture, a system of farming which doesn't push the land beyond what it is naturally capable of sustaining without chemical inputs, a system that values a complex and healthy soil.Īs he watched his land recover, he went back to university in his 50s to do a PhD in human ecology. He knew that to survive he would have to change. As he travels across the country teaching cultural burning, he says he owes his skills to two wise elders. Victor Steffensen became the face of Indigenous land management during the catastrophic bushfires. He writes provocatively about: "How modern industrial agriculture … is not just poisoning us but is also, confoundingly, making us obese while starving us at the same time with food that is bereft of nutrients." "No one likes to be told they're doing something badly or going against nature or that they might be exacerbating a problem," biodynamic farmer Dr Patrice Newell said. "What was once sort of regarded as a fringe insurgent movement is now gathering mainstream power," Mr Massy told Australian Story.īy calling for a revolution in the way we farm, eat and think about food, he has attracted a fair amount of controversy too. Part memoir and part call to arms, the book has become a bestseller since it was published in 2017.Ĭharles, a quiet fifth generation farmer, has become an unlikely political agitator who turbocharged the regenerative farming movement with his talks and seminars. It was a book that had taken eight years of rising at 4:00am to write before a day of working on the farm.Ī life's work that came from hundreds of conversations with farmers, years of PhD research, a profound love of nature, deep respect for Indigenous land management and recognition of his own mistakes on his farm that nearly brought him and the land undone.
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Touring had to be cancelled because of my responsibilities as a full time physician.Mr Massy with his grandson, Hamish Shumack hear a reed warbler on the banks of the Snowy River. Tuck's album Secret Dances received much airplay in Portland, Oregon and several interviews with local distribution by Burnside Records as well as multiple online distributers. Needless to say family reunions are rather merry events.
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Four cousins had a local hit song "Surf Bird" in the early sixties and won a Hollywood Bowl battle of the bands as "The Dukes." Cousin Wayne Massey, was nominated for a grammy as the best new country western singer for his song and album, "One Life to Live." He is currently married to country singer Charly McClain. Aunt Donna was still performing in Vegas in her late sixties as the "Hot Flash." Uncle Lorenzo was a yodeler as well as a Hawaiian Slack Key guitar player. Tuck's Dad was a mean boogie woogie piano player and Tuck's mom a concert violinist. Georgia and two other aunts sang in a group, "The Carole Sisters." A younger aunt Donna and a cousin Peggy, formed the Debs and gave Connie Stevens, Tuck's babysitter, her start. Grandma and aunt Georgia had their own "Georgia Massey's School of Song and Dance" in Los Angeles and Georgia was an accomplished pianist and song writer as well as singer. Grandpa jammed his guitar with Lester Flatts and Earl Scruggs. Tuck's family immersed him in music from an early age. He has had two songs win honorable mentions in the Billboard annual song contests and most recently was an honorable mention winner in January 2009 in Mike Pinder's Songwars.
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Tuck has been in choirs, orchestras, bands, and b arbershop quartets, where he wrote performances that won three tale nt shows and were featured on TV's "Faces and Places." He has also done his solo album and performed briefly with bands, "Thornwood Mill", "Lil Elmo and the Cosmos", and "Patriot." He has done radio advertisements with John Thoennes as well as a church musical for a competition "road show." Along with Bruce Smith he has done the soundtrack for a PBS documentary, "Conservation in Rural America." Tuck has also been featured on Ray Sommers TV show, "Sommers at Large." This background pulls together an album with varied pacing, progressive rock intros and pop/rock/alternative verses and choruses that are a little different yet still with plenty of hooks.