We Are All Connected

Connecting to nature through gardening

When I was little we would visit my grandparents’ farm, which seemed to be the most wonderful place in the world. For many years, we had a large vegetable garden in our house, which, again, seemed wondrous to me. I wanted to be a farmer and a writer when I grew up. As an adult, I’ve always somehow ended up living in cities, and in each place I’ve lived I have grown things - from pots on the back porch of an apartment, to the entire backyard of a city lot.

I’ve grown plants in boots, in boxes, in buckets and whenever possible, right in the groundalmost nothing makes me happier than mucking around in a garden. I share my current yard with a vegetable garden and native wildflowers.

So, that was the inspiration for Anywhere Farm - my love of growing things wherever I live. What would I like folks to take from the book? Readers take whatever they need, but I hope part of what they get from Anywhere Farm is loving and honoring growing things. To put a seed in the earth and see what to visit your Anywhere Farmbees, butterflies, birds, bunnies, friends and neighbors.

Plant a seed. Anywhere that you have some soil, some sunshine and some water. Your seed will grow and so will you.

We are all connected.

PHYLLIS ROOT Author

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