The Seed Hunter: Discover the World’s Most Unusual Heirloom Plants

＂Why grow the same dull vegetables and herbs filling every supermarket shelf? If you’re putting in the effort and growing your own, better make it something sensational! There’s a thrilling diversity of rare and unusual heirloom plants out there: a riot of beauty, color, and flavor that can only be experienced by growing your own.＂--

Mitch McCulloch is a London-born chef with a keen interest in flavors and the provenance of food. He is creating a market and forest garden on 4 acres in the New Forest (UK), where he works in tune with the local habitat, and community and practices No Dig (collaborating with Charles Dowding). Media work includes: a six-part miniseries for BBC Radio Suffolk; a segment on BBC Gardeners’ World; speaking at the Aldeburgh Food and Drink Festival; BBC One’s Escape to the Country; and a collaboration with the RSPB on Instagram videos to help save bees.