Grow Now Av Emily Murphy

Homeowners are looking for actionable ways to help conserve the environment, and this hopeful, heartfelt guide offers them specific guidance on how to do so in their own home gardens. Want an easy, actionable way to reduce your contribution to emissions and food waste? Create your own climate victory garden. Garden plots in towns and cities are critical to supporting ecological diversity, and by instituting organic, regenerative practices and growing some of our own food, we can shift toward living in a more responsible way. In Grow Now, Emily Murphy, the founder of the popular website and podcast Pass the Pistil, provides concrete advice on how to particpiate in garden-based climate activism. Filled with DIY projects, easy-to-implement plans, stylish photographs, advice for improving the overall health of a garden, and tips on choosing plants that help a garden become a functioning part of the planet's larger ecological cycles, Grow Now is the must-have garden book for people wanting a healthier planet. AUTHOR: Emil Murphy is an organic gardener with a BS in Ethnobotanical Resources from Humboldt State University. She later studied pedagogy at Sierra Nevada College and garden design with the California School of Garden Design. She teaches and speaks regularly about gardening and living, and her writing appears in numerous publications. Emily is also a photographer, cook, garden design coach and consultant, and creator of the celebrated blog Pass The Pistil. She is the author of Grow What You Love. 277 colour photographs, 15 illustrations