Growing Vegetables as Memory

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Plants connect us to ancestral and personal memory, much in the way a familiar scent or song does…so save seed and grow more of your most memory-rich crops. Connect With Adam Alexander: Adam Alexander is The Seed Detective. His passion for vegetables was ignited when he tasted an unusual sweet pepper with a fiery heart while on a filmmaking project in Ukraine. Smitten by its flavor, Adam began to seek out local growers of endangered heritage and heirloom varieties in a mission to bring home seeds to grow, share, and return so that he could enjoy their delicious taste―and save them from being lost forever. The Seed Detective Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your entire first order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Epic Homesteading, Jacques, and Chris) TikTok Facebook Facebook Group Discord Server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today we have Adam Alexander, a.k.a. the seed detective back on the show. We've been sharing
0:20.2	a lot this week about the history of seed and how crops move around the world and why
0:28.2	they've done so and today's episode Adam is growing vegetables as memory and that's a curious
0:34.3	title so I'm sort of intrigued by exactly what you mean there. Well thanks for asking
0:43.0	Kevin, it's to me it's important and I think that all of us who grow our own fruit and vegetables,
0:51.9	we how we remember things about vegetables put it for me particularly vegetables but also fruit
1:01.3	and where they come from and how ones acquired them. So normally we go to the store and we open
1:08.2	the catalog in the winter time and we decide what we're going to grow and we buy a load of seeds
1:12.7	and that's kind of it. You know we may remember the particularly cold day that we sat there
1:21.5	in front of the computer ordering our seeds but for me when I go into my garden and I walk through
1:28.8	it everything that I'm growing has a story and it is a story about where I may have found them
1:37.9	or who gave them to me the particular circumstance surrounding that vegetable and that's what I mean
1:46.2	by memory so it you know I a good example is oh it's the case with everything that I grow but
1:56.4	you know if I buy a packet of seeds and I just so them that it's just the variety so it's just
2:03.4	the type okay but when I have been given seeds by somebody and a really good example happened in
2:11.9	2018 and I was in in the Hopi Nation I was visiting Hopi Nation and I was particularly interested in
2:23.9	their maze and the Hopi Nation farmers are just the most amazing people and maze like with so many
2:31.2	native Americans and indigenous peoples it's a really really fundamental part of their culture
2:37.4	and I'd grown blue maze before but it was I didn't know its provenance and to me provenance is
2:48.2	everything and I was in in the Hopi Nation and I stopped off at this place and walked in there was a
2:57.4	guy at the counter and he was surrounded by paraphernalia and memorabilia and Hopi
3:07.0	kind of souvenirs and stuff and he was reading an article about the evolution of maze which
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