Seeds: our future food, with Adam Alexander

BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast

Immediate Media

Nature, Science, Leisure, Home & Garden

4.4 • 647 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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With a passion for growing vegetables and fruit, in particular rare and endangered vegetables from around the world, seed saver, filmmaker and writer Adam Alexander, discusses the social and cultural relationship we have with what we grow and eat. Known as the Seed Detective, Adam Alexander uncovers little known stories of people who've helped to preserve the world's edible diversity. With a library of over 500 rare, endangered and heirloom vegetable varieties, he emphasises the importance of saving seeds for biodiversity and food security. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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