DR. WILLIAM WOYS WEAVER with SARAH PHILLIPS, INTERVIEWER AND PRODUCER
I interviewed him on site in Devon, PA in September, 2021, and composed a video documentary.
William Woys Weaver is an internationally known food ethnographer and author of 20 books dealing with culinary history and heritage seeds. He is the founder of The Roughwood Table, a non-profit organization devoted to heritage foods from heritage seeds.
His grandfather, H. Ralph Weaver, established the Roughwood Seed Collection in 1932, the oldest private seed collection in the Eastern United States which houses the largest collection of Native American seeds in the country.
William Woys Weaver renamed his collection www.seedways.org this October, 2021.
One can purchase seeds from his collection, but he warns: “We are NOT a seed company; our seed sales help support our stewardship of rare varieties, education, and our rematriation programs sending free seeds back to indigenous peoples.
Our seeds are raised with kindness, love, and freedom from patents/copyrights and GMO (genetically modified organisms)”.
