"This is a film about resilience - three generations of older women in a village in South Africa who came together in the dying days of apartheid to create a community garden [Hleketani Community Garden]. Filmed against the backdrop of an epic drought gripping southern Africa, The Thinking Garden tells the remarkable story of what can happen when women take matters into their own hands, and shows how local action in food production can give even the most vulnerable people a measure of control over their food and their futures"--Container.