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Books By Adam Alexander - Author
Adam Alexander's first book, The Seed Detective, told the heritage stories of our everyday veg heroes. It was chosen as one of Radio 4's The Food Programme's Books of the Year by Dan Saladino and shortlisted for the Garden Media Guild's Garden Book of the Year.
Adam 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, above all, delicious vegetables from around the world. He lectures widely on his work discovering and conserving rare, endangered garden crops and is a board member of the national charity Garden Organic. 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 seeds of heritage Syrian vegetables to be returned to the Middle East as part of a prog