Adam Alexander: seed detective

Adam Alexander is on a mission to save rare vegetables and put them back on menus all over the world. Adam is a seed guardian at the UK's Organic Garden Heritage Seed Library, which has over 500 rare, endangered, local and heirloom vegetable varieties. He has saved over twenty endangered varieties himself, grows around seventy different vegetable varieties every year for collectors, and those keen to conserve genetic food plant diversity. A rare Catalonian pea is just one variety which might otherwise be no more had Adam not intervened. A seed detective, Adam joins the dots on mysteries like why a South American broad bean is meaningful in Myanmar. When he's not in the seed beds Adam is a filmmaker, traveling the world cultivating relationships with growers and vegetables along the way. Adam tells Kathryn he's a pea nut.