Maggie Muzante

Maggie Muzante has a passion for flowers, growing plants, creating gardens, photography and art. She grew up in Glen Cove, her first job was for the local beaches in the City of Glen Cove as a calm water beach lifeguard. Maggie is a Farmingdale State College graduate, with a Bachelor's degree in Bioscience achieved in May 2020. Farmingdale had a great impact and source for inspiration, stemming from the Horticulture Department, where she was a work-study student. She worked in the rose garden, sustainable garden, greenhouse, and helped every year at the annual Spring Plant sale, and still does as an alumni. Her favorite courses were biology, chemistry, botany, entomology, and ecology at Farmingdale. 

After tending to her own raised beds in the front of her family’s home, Maggie gained planting opportunities for people in need of help with their garden. She expanded her expertise in creating gardens and vegetable raised beds for clients at their homes during her undergraduate studies. After graduation, her first place of employment began as an intern for the Long Island Native Plant Initiative (LINPI) in June 2020. At LINPI, she learned how to grow native plants from seed, identify plants and collect seeds, and learned more about monarchs and milkweed. She reared caterpillars rescued from milkweed plants at the nursery to help monarchs safely metamorphosize. Presently, she is the LINPI Nursery Manager, where she manages the propagation of native plants and works with volunteers. Her connections brought her to ReWild, starting as the first Gardens Program Manager. She is overjoyed to design, plan and education groups about native plants and their benefits for pollinators. 

Maggie enjoys traveling upstate New York, nature walks, photography, art in many forms, beach visits, swimming, music, company of friends, and collaborating with fellow horticulturists. She combines nature and art, creating herbariums with pressed flowers, flower frames, making recycled paper, and jewelry making with seaglass. She is always looking to learn new skills to expand her knowledge of horticulture.

Maggie joined ReWild in February 2023.