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Marie Viljoen

Brooklyn
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Marie Viljoen’s Biography

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Freelance writer and photographer focusing on foraging, plants, food, and horticulture. And a cocktail or two. Author of two cookbooks: Forage, Harvest, Feast - A Wild-Inspired Cuisine (Chelsea Green, 2018); and 66 Square Feet - A Delicious Life (Abrams, 2013).

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Mugwort is a plant eaten by invasivores - it is an edible herb but is also harmful to the environ...

Mugwort is a plant eaten by invasivores - it is an edible herb but is also harmful to the environ...

Mugwort is a delicious edible herb that is also a highly invasive plant. The invasivore movement advocates fo…

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Forest Farming Is the Future (for Ramps) - Gardenista

Forest Farming Is the Future (for Ramps) - Gardenista

In their native deciduous woodland home, pungently delicious ramps appear in extensive, green colonies in ear…

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All About the Amazing Oyster Mushroom, Including How to Prep and Use It in Your Cooking

All About the Amazing Oyster Mushroom, Including How to Prep and Use It in Your Cooking

Once upon a time, in the late 20th century, the only mushroom you could find in a U.S. supermarket was the di…

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Indoor Citrus

Indoor Citrus

There's nothing more enchanting than the perfume of citrus blossoms in late winter...

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Notes from a Pocket-Sized Garden

Notes from a Pocket-Sized Garden

A New York City gardener learns to grow roots and find refuge in plants wherever she lands...

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Vice Media's Rooftop: A Brooklyn Meadow Garden with Panoramic Views - Gardenista

Vice Media's Rooftop: A Brooklyn Meadow Garden with Panoramic Views - Gardenista

If you have a 20,000-square-foot Brooklyn rooftop with selfie-worthy views of the Manhattan skyline, you shou…

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Gardening 101: How to Grow Bistort, a Buckwheat Relative

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By Marie Viljoen
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In the early summer garden of Tinder Hearth, the bakery and restaurant set amid green fields outside Brooksville, Maine, I waited recently with my husband for two very good pizzas to arrive (when they did there was lovage from the garden on one, and tender kelp stipes from the coast on the other). There was plenty to occupy us while we waited. Neat Victorian edging around a pruned circle of elderberry shrubs. An old apple tree in blossom, its heavy limbs supported by kind crutches.
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Garden Therapy: 13 Gardening Tasks to Quiet the Mind

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By Marie Viljoen
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“I heard the news today, oh boy.” Where is John Lennon when we need him? I watched television recently. I don’t own a television. It was a wall-spanning flatscreen mounted in a waiting room, where about a dozen people were held captive near it. The sound was on and ABC7 blasted us. Apart from the noise, which I tried to tune out, I was struck by the haranguing tone of ceaseless urgency. Everything was an emergency, on a loop.
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Garden Visit: Jefferson Market Garden in Greenwich Village

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By Marie Viljoen
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Nestled at the foot of a Victorian-Gothic confection designed by Frederick Clarke Withers and enclosed by an ornate wrought iron fence dedicated by Brooke Astor, the Jefferson Market Garden appears to have enjoyed a long and privileged life. The garden is an island of leafy peace on a tranquil triangular block amid the swarming traffic of Greenwich and 6th Avenues in Manhattan, on the border of Greenwich Village and the West Village.
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