How two grow food you love while supporting wildlife and community.

Emily Murphy believes gardens hold the key to saving our health, our communities, and our planet. In her new book Grow Now Murphy presents a compelling case for the power of regenerative gardening to piece together and heal fractured ecosystems. “Go Beyond Organic, Rewild Your Land, Sequester Carbon, Support Biodiversity” the front cover of the book declares.

It’s a lot. 

As we come to grips with the alarming realities of climate change and species extinction, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. In “Are You Eco-Anxious?” a short sidebar that appears early in the book, Murphy acknowledges both the scope of the problem and proposes countering anxiety with small steps and hopeful measures, like planting your first seed or adding a single native plant to your existing landscape.

Grow Now is about growing good food, supporting native wildlife, and creating healthy spaces for all living creatures. It’s also a roadmap to nature-based solutions that will “revive, restore and regenerate” our environment. “It starts with one plot at a time,” Murphy writes, “mine and yours and your neighbors, and so on.”

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GROW in The Seattle Times