Growing Grass Roots: A Guide to Creating and Caring for Community

In Growing Grass Roots: A Guide to Creating and Caring for Community, an artist and activist working at the intersection of ecology, place, and collective life offers a quiet but urgent invitation: to rethink how we come together, and what it means to truly care for one another and the living world we are part of.

Written with the sensibility of someone who listens as much as they speak, this book moves through community not as a fixed structure, but as a living system—one that must be seeded with intention, tended with care, shaped through expression, and sustained through cycles of rest and renewal. Drawing from ecological thinking and grounded lived experience, it explores how relationships, creativity, and environmental awareness are deeply intertwined.

Rather than offering rigid steps or prescriptive solutions, Growing Grass Roots provides practices, reflections, and guiding principles for those seeking to build communities rooted in reciprocity rather than extraction, collaboration rather than control. It speaks to the slow work of listening deeply, sharing power, honoring endings, and imagining alternatives to systems that no longer serve life.

Part field guide, part meditation, part call to attention, this is a book for anyone asking how to live and create more responsibly within their place—how to tend what is fragile, and how to participate in the quiet, ongoing work of repair.

At its heart, it is a reminder that community is not something we construct once and complete. It is something we grow, season after season, together.