Adam Alexander Author Talk • The Accidental Seed Heroes

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, 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 been featured on a number of gardening podcasts in the US discussing his first book The Seed Detective (published in the US in September 2022), and appeared in Gardeners’ World and the Great British Food Revival, CNN’s Going Green and Radio New Zealand. In The Accidental Seed Heroes, Ad