Watch Heather talk about the curiosities of the Vegetable Lamb from Tartary at Science Showoff. A most curious and long lost legend from the middle ages, a time when we got nature fantastically wrong! Filmed by Steve Cross at Science Showoff Presented by Heather Lampard After stumbling across the story of the Vegetable Lamb in a book, its absurdity and imaginative splendour sparked Heathers curiosity until she had to know everything about it! Piecing together this long lost narrative, Heather realised this is a story that needs to be brought back to life. If you want to journey back and rediscover this fabulous legend, check out Henry Lee’s detailed description of its origin and evolution throughout our history: https://archive.org/stream/vegetablelamboft00leehrich/vegetablelamboft00leehrich_djvu.txt