Adam Alexander is an award-winning film and television producer, and the author of The Seed Detective.
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The carrot has followed armies, colonial explorers, and politicians to become one of the world’s most prized vegetables.
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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, and delicious vegetables from around the world. He is a director of OF1200, a company championing food growing in Wales and celebrating local varieties. He is a seed guardian with the Heritage Seed Library. He has appeared on television, including the BBC’s “Gardeners’ World” and “Great British Food Revival,” as well as CNN’s “Going Green.” He is the author of The Seed Detective.
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Meet the ʻSeed Detectiveʼ Who Travels the Worldʼs Farms to Understand Local Food Cultures
A rare chilli in northern India provides the ‘Seed Detective’ with inspiration for a book about remarkable vegetables and where to find them.
National Geographic Traveller (UK) | April | 2024
Adam Alexanderʼs journey to Rajasthan and his search for the mathania chilli became the catalyst for a book about the cultivation of vegetables.
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Uncovering the Secret Histories of Remarkable Vegetables
Chelsea Green Publishing | September | 2022
The author has spent a lifetime growing vegetables, collecting rare and endangered varieties, and saving seeds to share with others. He has collected varieties on his extensive travels, studied their histories, and brought them back to displaced people wishing to reconnect with growing familiar crops. This is a book that tells the stories of vegetables; how they journeyed from wild parent to cultivated offspring and found themselves at the very centre of our food culture.
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Interview | January | 2024
Fiona Taylor chats to Adam Alexander, aka the Seed Detective. Adam is a volunteer Seed Guardian for Garden Organicʼs Heritage Seed Library, and self-confessed seed nut! Adam shares stories of his travels around the world, and why seed saving and sharing is so important.
Interview | September | 2021
Genetic richness in food is disappearing. In the last 100 years, weʼve lost at least 90 percent of the genetic diversity of our food crops. Alexanderʼs work, along with that of other seed savers around the world, aims to counter this trend.
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