Into the Weeds

<B><I>Into the Weeds </I>empowers budding and experienced gardeners alike to embrace a gentler, less rigid and more sustainable approach to tending the land.</B><BR/><BR/> Tama Matsuoka Wong, master forager and gardener, invites you break free from meticulously ordered beds and<B> rethink the way you engage with and value the plants around you</B>. <I>Into the Weeds</I> teaches you to encourage those plants, even if you didn’t plant them yourself, <B>turn invasive vines into simple structures like borders and beds</B>, and transform the bounty of your surroundings into <B>teas</B>, <B>tinctures</B>, and <B>cocktails</B>. <BR/><BR/> Part practical and part philosophical, <I>Into the Weeds</I> includes a <B>plant ID section for some of the most common edible, useful, plants in the world</B>. 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.<BR/><BR/> 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."