The Accidental Seed Heroes : Growing a delicious food future for all of usSigned Copy sent after author event on 27th March 2025 Across the world, chefs, farmers, plant scientists and backyard growers are doing something extraordinary: creating new generations of fruit, vegetables and cereals, all bred specifically to flourish locally, taste delicious, and contribute to our food future. In The Accidental Seed Heroes, Adam Alexander dons his seed detective homburg to meet these twenty first century seed heroes, who are not

3 million breeding pairs

through good and bad

neglect and a dangerous and creeping ideology

calls upon original Achaemenid sources to create an authentic 'Persian Version' of this remarkable first great empire of antiquity - the Age of the Great Kings

this awareness heightens the comedy and intensifies the drama

their landscapes

grants us an intimacy with centuries of rich and varied history as he guides us around the Soho of the last 500 years

mathematical conundrums and a murder mystery

it might be next to impossible to pull things back together

as Caroline Dodds Pennock conclusively shows in this groundbreaking book

fickle gods

'The Ox' will shine a long overdue light on one of the single greatest