IMPACT

Cultivating Place: The Power of Gardeners is more than a film — it’s a call to recognize gardeners as keystones of culture, ecology, and community. By elevating their voices, we want to shift how society sees gardening: not as an ornament or a pastime, but as a profound act of care that grows resilience.

Through this film, we aim to:

• Expand understanding — broaden the definition of gardening to include cultural, ecological, and social dimensions.

• Inspire action — encourage audiences to see their own relationship with land and plants as meaningful and world-shaping.

• Build connection — highlight gardeners as models of belonging and stewardship, linking people across places and traditions.

• Support equity — amplify the work of cultivators whose voices and practices have been overlooked.

Our hope is that audiences leave with:

• A new respect for gardeners as cultural changemakers.

• A deeper connection to plants, places, and each other.

• A sense of belonging in the ongoing story of cultivation.