Whether you’ve got a few raised beds in your backyard, a community garden plot, or just a pot of tomatoes on your patio, we’ve got lots of resources to help you grow your own food.

Why is growing our own food important? From a climate perspective, the fewer miles our food travels from the farm to our tables, the less climate-changing greenhouse gases are emitted. Plus, it tastes better! And, when you use organic and regenerative techniques to grow your food, odds are your food is more nutritious too. In addition, regenerative gardening practices (like keeping the soil covered in living plants, diversity of crops, no-till, no chemicals, composting, crop rotation, and more) create healthier soil that can absorb (“sequester”) more carbon dioxide (a primary cause of global warming) from the atmosphere. In fact, the book Drawdown, edited by Paul Hawkins, ranked regenerative agriculture as the 11th most effective way to combat climate change (out of 80 solutions evaluated) because of its ability to draw down carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it in the soil.

Here are some resources to help you grow your own food and combat climate change at the same time.

Videos

Here are a few great videos to help you get started growing your own food in a climate-friendly way.

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Books

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