Welcome! I’m Maggie.
I believe my journey here all started in a van with fellow geography students in Western New york.
Our professor was pointing out and naming trees as we drove fast down a dirt road and I said, “What?! That’s so cool!” If you can believe it, it had never occurred to me that trees have names, and that I could know them. At that moment, I felt a deep sense of being home. I realized that I wanted to connect to something larger, and I felt that knowing the names of plants was my entrypoint to feeling a true sense of place - which is finding meaning in your life through your surroundings.
BORN AND RAISED IN BROOKLYN,
I love the inspiring and motivating energy of cities, and so I moved back there to set out on my non-linear path toward cultivating a sense of place. Along the way, I received a Certificate in Horticulture from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, worked as gardener and volunteer coordinator at Battery Park and Stuyvesant Cove Park, gardened (and drove a box truck like a badass) at various landscape firms in NYC, and worked for the Horticulture Society of NY as a horticultural therapist at Rikers Island.
Gardening was my way of giving back to those I loved, the land and the beings of the urban environment.
As I gardened, my sense of place deepened. To my surprise I also began to feel ease, joy, calm and confidence, feelings that spread into all areas of my life. I did not know how lost I was and how much better I could feel if I tended my connection to the land. Now that I know, I want this for everyone.
I am so happy to be here and work with you as you begin or continue or restart tending your connection to this great world.
