‘Fields of Devotion’

Fields of Devotion (2022) is a 30 minute original Rutgers science documentary that follows the collaboration of Rutgers plant science researchers and New Jersey farmers in an effort to strengthen New Jersey’s food systems.

Our story follows the detailed work of Rutgers plant geneticists as they isolate genes for breeding disease resistance commercial basil, a high-profit crop on which small NJ family farmers depend.

Working together, the research scientists and the farmers create a new plant breeding model which includes regular communication between researchers and farmers and can be adapted to increase disease resistance in other food crops.