Adam Alexander: Meetings with Remarkable Vegetables (and the people who grow and breed them)

Name: Adam Alexander: Meetings with Remarkable Vegetables (and the people who grow and breed them)
Start: 2025-08-18T18:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-08-18T19:30:00+01:00
Location: Central Library, Rosemount Viaduct, AB25 1GW Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Schedule

Mon Aug 18 2025 at 06:30 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Central Library, Rosemount Viaduct, AB25 1GW Aberdeen, United Kingdom | Aberdeen, SC

Adam Alexander is a writer and consummate storyteller thanks to forty years as a successful and award-winning film and television producer. He lectures widely on his work discovering, conserving and sharing rare, endangered and delicious garden crops. He grows seed of heritage Syrian and Ukrainian vegetables for displaced people in the UK and beyond and maintains a library of over 500 vegetables that he has collected over 35 years, growing out more than 40 varieties every year to refresh his collection and share with fellow gardeners. He is a seed guardian for the Heritage Seed Library, part of Garden Organic in the UK and supports agro-ecological horticulture in Wales.
His latest book The Accidental Seed Heroes was published in March 2025. In it he explores the inspiring and positive future for plant breeding; meeting a new generation of traditional plant breeders as well as plant scientists collaborating with indigenous farmers in Africa, India and the Balkans who maintain and champion locally adapted varieties. Adam argues that the ability to save and maintain seeds is a right for all, hobby growers and professionals alike, and not something to be controlled by corporations patenting seeds for profit.