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Co-Hosted by the Island Grown Initiative

TO WHICH WE BELONG is a documentary that highlights farmers and ranchers leaving behind conventional practices that are no longer profitable or sustainable.

These unsung heroes are improving the health of our soil and sea to save their livelihoods — and our planet.

“When soils become healthy & alive, it’s a win-win-win scenario for farmers, for society, and the world.”

-Michael Doane, The Nature Conservancy

“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”

-Aldo Leopold

Director & Executive Producer Pamela Tanner Boll is an artist, filmmaker, writer and activist. She is the Founder and CEO of Mystic Artists Film Productions.  She is the Co-Executive Producer of the Academy Award-winning documentary, Born into Brothels. Pamela has executive produced the following film projects: Living in Emergency: True Stories of Doctors Without Borders; In a Dream; Connected: A Declaration of Interdependence; Our Summer in Tehran; Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields; Close to the Fire; She’s Beautiful When She’s AngryE-Team; Teen Press; Obit; Navajo Nation; and Storm Lake.

Pamela directed and produced Who Does She Think She Is?, a feature-length documentary film that follows five women who are mothers and artists. Pamela also directed A Small Good Thing, a film that asks the question of how can we live in a better way. She is currently working on a new film project, To Which We Belong, highlighting farmers and ranchers who are improving the health of their land with regenerative practices and helping to reverse climate change.

Pamela grew up in Parkersburg, WV.  She received a BA in English from Middlebury College and a master’s in Interdisciplinary Studies from Lesley University. Pamela raised three sons in Winchester, Massachusetts, and now lives in Boulder, Colorado.

Co-director & Producer Lindsay Richardson received a BA from Brown University and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts. Most recently, she was the co-producer on Ugly Delicious(season 1), an 8 hour food docu-series by Momofuku restaurateur/chef David Chang and Academy Award-winning director Morgan Neville (20 Feet From Stardom) on Netflix. Previously, she was the associate producer on Roger Ross Williams’ Sundance award-winning and Oscar-nominated feature documentary, Life, Animated. Beyond her extensive work producing documentary films, she has taught courses in documentary film production at Brown University, and is studying to be a URI Master Gardener. She lives in Jamestown, RI.

Noli Taylor is passionate about the power of food to bring communities together and deepen our relationship to the natural world. She has done environmental and agricultural advocacy and organizing work with non-profits and community groups from Philadelphia to Seattle, Albuquerque to Kaua’i. Noli graduated from Haverford College and the Green Corps Field School for Environmental Organizing, and served on the boards of the Massachusetts Dept. of Agricultural Resources and Massachusetts Farm to School. She began her work with IGI in 2006, and lives with her family next to the Gay Head Lighthouse in Aquinnah.
Andrew Woodruff has been farming on Martha’s Vineyard for 44 years.  He is the owner of Whippoorwill Farm in West Tisbury and has served as Island Grown Initiative’s Regenerative Farming Consultant for the past four years.  Andrew is passionate about the power and potential of regenerative farming, and has seen first hand how soil health-focused practices impact farms, farmers, and the food they grow.