Description: Pass the pistil. Emily Murphy -- Cultivating Gardens
I’ve learned there’s something wonderfully powerful in the simple act of growing. Here, in our gardens, we can repair ourselves and our plots of earth with our own two hands. When we connect these spaces to other gardens, parks, and open spaces through living greenways, nature has the opportunity to repair itself and to restore its resiliency. How can we provide the conditions necessary to enable nature to repair damaged and fragmented ecosystems? We can think of our gardens as nature-based, biodiversity-bu
Growing a garden is one of the most powerful things we can do as individuals to enact positive change and make a difference. In fact, if you’re looking for practical solutions to the climate crisis and the resulting loss of biodiversity, the answer is right out your door and in the earth beneath your feet. It’s possible to sequester enough carbon to offset your carbon footprint while supporting wildlife. Your garden has the potential to to be an ecological haven, sequestering carbon and supporting biodivers
GROW NOW is an accessible call to action, championing garden-based climate activism. At first glance, it can be described as a practical manual scaling no-dig, regenerative organics for the home gardener with a close look at rewilding to foster biodiversity and mitigate species extinction. It's also an exploration into re-writing the narrative around our personal (and societal) connection to nature, reminding us that we are nature! And reminding us that we’re only as healthy as the environment in which we l