Today, we have an incredible guest on the show for an entire week. His name is Adam Alexander,

but he may be better known as the Seed Detective. Adam, welcome to the show.

Hi, Kevin. Thank you for inviting me to be honest. I appreciate it very much.

I'm so excited. I found out about your stuff and the name itself, just as captivating,

and I am curious, I suppose, the origin story of that name, the Seed Detective.

Sure. Well, how did it... Well, it all began. I mean, a while back now, I mean, I've obviously

I've been growing veggies since I was a kid, and I even had a horticultural business as market

garden back in the 70s, and so I've been associated with growing things my entire life, but

I'm a filmmaker by profession, and I found myself in, of all places, a city that's very much

at the front of people's minds at the moment, Danyetsk in the Ukraine, and I was there right at the

end of the 1980s, as the Soviet Union was crumbling, and Mikhail Gorbachev was just recently died,

was the president, but it was still the Soviet Union, and we were making a show about this

amazing city. It's a very interesting place, and we're staying at the Communist Party hotel.

The only problem was that the staff at the hotel objected to the fact that you had a British

film crew who were not members of the party staying there, and a number of them withdrew their

labor, and I was producing the series, and I had a hungry crew, and I wasn't having any of this,

so I said, you know what, we're going to take over the kitchen, and I had a wonderful interpreter,

and she and I went off to the local market in town. Now back then, in the late 80s,

there was very little food around, the supermarkets were empty, the economy was in ruins,

but if you wanted to get any decent food, you went to the market, and it was expensive,

which meant very few local people could afford it. I was lucky, I had dollars, and so could

buy my vegetables there. And when I was there, I met this woman who became a real archetype.

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