Into the Weeds: How to Garden Like a Forager - Hardcover

by Tama Matsuoka Wong (Author)

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.

As the author writes, "All land, be it a formal hardscaped botanical garden, public park, office courtyard, backyard, front yard, farmland, community plot, urban lot, a windowsill pot...can shelter a little wilderness, a piece of paradise."

Author Biography

Tama Matsuoka Wong is the New Jersey-based author of Foraged Flavor, which was nominated for a James Beard Award, and co-author of Scraps, Wilt and Weeds, which won the IACP Food Matters award. As a master forager for some of New York City's most prestigious restaurants, her deep knowledge of wild produce informs her impeccable taste in their flavors and uses.

Tama's work has been Featured in the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, CBS Sunday, TedX Manhattan, CNN Great Big Story, Martha Stewart Magazine, Oprah magazine, Edible Manhattan.