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Into the Weeds:
How to Garden Like a Forager
Tama Matsuoka Wong
Many a gardener, flower lover, or backyard farmer hates that most dreaded of garden chores: getting rid of weeds. Tama Matsuoka Wong offers a new approach to many plants deemed undesirable: manage them, turn them into delicious food, teas, structures....in other words reap their abundance. A self-described "failed" gardener turned garden contrarian, she looks to cues as to what plants grow wild naturally in situ and, besides that, sells many pounds of invasive weeds to markets and chefs. On a more personal level, she will share with you the "why" of her latest book Into the Weeds: How to Garden Like a Forager (Hardie Grant North America 2024): why weeds sit at the juncture of our food, environment and health, and how to use the most common weeds that grow around you.
Thursday, March 27th, 2025 | 3:00 - 4:15 PM ET
Category: Home gardener
Fee: $42
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Tama Matsuoka Wong is a forager, weed eater, wild farmer, and meadow doctor, based in Hunterdon County, New Jersey She is the author of the James Beard nominated cookbook Foraged Flavor: Finding Fabulous Ingredients in Your Backyard or Farmer's Market, with 88 Recipes: A Cookbook (Clarkson Potter 2012) and now Into the Weeds: How to Garden Like a Forager (Hardie Grant North America 2024). She has spoken at the New Directions in the American Landscape Annual Design Symposium, Woody Plants Conference, Philadelphia Horticultural Society, garden clubs and master gardens and been featured in WSJ, NYT, Gardenista, Garden and Gun, Modern Farmer, Martha Stewart, among others.