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Into the Weeds empowers budding and experienced gardeners alike to embrace a gentler, less rigid and more sustainable approach to tending the land.. Tama Matsuoka Wong, master forager and gardener, invites you break free from meticulously ordered beds and rethink the way you engage with and value the plants around you. Into the Weeds teaches you to encourage those plants, even if you didn't plant them yourself, turn invasive vines into simple structures like borders and beds, and transform the bounty of your surroundings into teas, tinctures, and cocktails. . Part practical and part philosophical, Into the Weeds includes a plant ID section for some of the most common edible, useful, plants in the world. A project on making wildflower leis shows how one made with the "scrap" flowers can be just as beautiful as one made from showy plants.
About the Author
Tama Matsuoka Wong is the forager for Daniel, NYC, the renowned restaurant of Daniel Boulud. For several years she has been working with Eddy Leroux, chef de cuisine, exploring the culinary flavors of wild plants. Tama worked as a corporate lawyer in Hong Kong, Tokyo and New York after graduating from Harvard Law School. Upon returning a decade ago to her native New Jersey with her family, she rediscovered her passion for the natural world and the wild plants that grew in her backyard.In 2007 she was awarded the New Jersey Forest Service Steward of the Year award. She has since worked with botanists and conservation groups to map wild plants and their ecological behavior throughout New Jersey, the mid-Atlantic and beyond. She formed the company MeadowsandMore LLC and produced a booklet with New Jersey Audubon entitled Meadows on the Menu. In addition to supplying local, organic and sustainable wild food products, she gives tours, lectures, and landscape stewardship advice to conservation and botanical organizations as well as private individuals.
