New Jersey's 'Meadow Doctor' Wants You To Eat Your Weeds

Despite her small stature, Tama Matsuoka Wong is a woman who commands authority. After graduating from Harvard University in 1983, she practiced law in Hong Kong for over two decades. After food-related allergies began to affect her family, she moved to the United States to start a new life on a weedy patch of grass in New Jersey. Wong’s path to meadow doctoring would start with those weeds in her yard. “It was basically this thing that just took over my life,” she says. She soon joined local conservation groups…

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