Tama Matsuoka Wong started a company called Meadows & More that delivers wild foraged foods to Nextdoorganics and restaurants in NYC.

In 2013, she gave a presentation at TEDxManhattan where she shared how she went from Wall St. lawyer to professional wild forager.

On weeds and our past:

“We’ve lost the connections with our grandmothers and grandfathers. What I’m really trying to do is connect us with our past.”

On weeds and our future:

“I think weeds are a part of our future.”

On weeds in wild nature vs controlled agriculture:

“We forget, we are a part of nature. It’s not something that we are supposed to control.”

You can meet Tama if you happen to be at our Brooklyn Hub Tuesday afternoons when she’ll deliver daylily shoots this week and other signs of Spring.

Josh Cook
Co-founder and CEO
Nextdoorganics
nextdoorganics.com