About The Lavender Project

The Lavender Project is an agriCULTURE movement rooted in storytelling, land, and community.

Founded by Dayton based agricultural photographer and urban farmer Love’Yah Stewart, the project brings together photography, public art, farming, and cultural gatherings to document the lived experiences within agriculture and food culture.

The project works in close collaboration with Florentina Rodriguez, a seed steward, educator, and co founder of the Miami Valley Seed Commons. Florentina’s work focuses on seed sovereignty, community education, and preserving regionally adapted seeds. Through workshops, seed exchanges, and community gatherings, she helps connect people to the deeper cultural and ecological stories carried through seeds.

Together, their work brings art, seeds, and storytelling into shared spaces where farmers, growers, artists, and neighbors can gather around the land that feeds them.

Too often the stories of farmers, growers, and land stewards are reduced to production statistics or overlooked entirely. The Lavender Project works to change that by creating space for people to be seen, heard, and remembered through images, conversations, archives, and community events.

Through photography exhibitions, seed socials, public art, film screenings, and land based programming, the project explores the relationship between people, memory, and the soil that feeds us.

At its heart, The Lavender Project believes agriculture is not just about growing food. It is about culture, identity, history, and the ways communities care for land and one another.

The Lavender Project is building a living archive of these stories while creating gatherings where art, seeds, and community meet.

AgriCULTURE is more than production.
It is people.
It is memory.
It is resistance.
It is beauty.