Emily Murphy

Learn more about Emily at http://passthepistil.com and on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook @passthepistil

Emily Murphy is the author of the best-selling book, Grow What You Love (Firefly Books, 2018), and, GROW NOW: How We Can Save Our Health, Communities, and Planet -- One Garden at a Time (Timberpress, 2022). Emily is also an expert regenerative organic gardener, designer, and photographer. She studied ethnobotany, environmental science, and garden design with a focus on nature-based climate action to support biodiversity, sequester carbon, and rewild communities and landscapes. Her work has appeared nationally and internationally in publications and other media such as NBC’s “The Today Show”, The Marilyn Denis Show, Reader’s Digest Canada, Pacific Horticulture Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, Mother Earth News, The North Coast Journal, The Morning Show—Global News Toronto, The Marilyn Denis Show, Mind Body Green, Sunset Magazine, and Better Homes & Gardens.

A native of Northern California, Emily spent her early years between her parent’s home in the far reaches of coastal California near the Oregon border, and the homes of her grandparent’s in Sonoma County. She weaves stories from each of these places into her writings, gleaning from her experiences of living on a homestead, farm, and the neat city blocks of a college town where food and nature could be found just as easily in each respective landscape.