David Todd interviews UWP founder Scooter Cheatham in Lajitas, Texas

Scooter talks about the Useful Wild Plants Project as a way to understand, protect, and develop native plants as food, shelter, clothing, products, and diverse chemical sources.

This video is part of the Texas Legacy Project, a collection of oral history interviews sponsored by the Conservation History Association of Texas.

How do wild plants connect to what's on your table or in your medicine cabinet? Scooter Cheatham and Lynn Marshall from Useful Wild Plants join Tom Spencer to recognize the contributions that wild plants make to our food, health, and industry.