“A cracking read. . . . This isn’t just a book about seeds or food systems; it’s an inspiring nudge to get stuck into the joys of gardening while understanding the bigger picture. A proper gem for anyone keen to connect their love of growing with the wider world of growing.”
— Rob Smith, author of Grow to Eat
About the Speaker
Adam Alexander is a consummate storyteller thanks to forty years as an award-winning film and television producer, but his true passion is collecting rare, endangered but, above all, delicious vegetables from around the world. He lectures widely on his work discovering and conserving rare, endangered garden crops, is a former board member of the national charity Garden Organic, and his knowledge and expertise on growing out vegetables for seed is highly valued by the Heritage Seed Library, for which he is a seed guardian. Adam shares seeds with other growers and gene banks in the USA, Canada and the EU, and he is currently growing out seed of heritage Syrian vegetables to be returned to the Middle East as part of a programme to revive traditional horticulture. He has appeared on Gardeners’ World and the Great British Food Revival, CNN’s Going Green and Radio New Zealand. Get his latest book “Accidental Seed Heroes” via Chelsea Green Publishing.