Adam Alexander
Adam Alexander is a film and television producer and writer who has been collecting, growing, and sharing seeds of endangered and culturally important crops for over thirty years. His work has appeared on the BBC’s Gardeners World and CNN’s Going Green, and he is a board member of the national charity Garden Organic and a seed guardian for the Heritage Seed Library.
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The Seed Detective
- By: Adam Alexander
- Narrator: Calum Beaton
- Length: 8 hours 30 minutes
- Publisher: Chelsea Green
- Publish date: September 29, 2022
- Language: English
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4.02(51 ratings)
Have you ever wondered how peas, kale, asparagus, beans, squash, and corn have ended up on our plates? Well, Adam Alexander has. Adam Alexander is The Seed Detective. His passion for vegetables was ignited when he tasted an unusual sweet pepper with a fiery heart while on a filmmaking project in Ukraine. Smitten by its flavor, Adam began to seek out local growers of endangered heritage and heirloom varieties in a mission to bring home seeds to grow, share, and return so that he could enjoy their delicious taste?and save them from being lost forever. In The Seed Detective, Adam shares his own stories of seed hunting, with the origin stories behind many of our everyday food heroes. Taking us on a journey that began when we left the life of the hunter-gatherer to become farmers, he tells tales of globalization, political intrigue, colonization, and serendipity?describing how these vegetables and their travels have become embedded in our food cultures.
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