She Won’t Come in from the Fields
A feisty farm woman is fed up with the conventional way her son is farming the family land. That’s why she’s staging a one-woman protest, refusing to come in from the fields until he agrees to try farming regeneratively. In the process, it hits home to both of them that working together is the best way to regenerate their farm and help mitigate climate change.
The performance will be followed by an optional conversation with the audience focussing on challenges and solutions in sustainable food production and food security, exploring ways to dovetail different approaches for the benefit of farmers, consumers and the planet.
Dale has been writing and producing theatre for over forty years and comes from a 6-generations-deep farm family in southwestern Ontario. In the 1990s she was elected to Eramosa Township Council and appointed to the provincial Farm Products Appeal Tribunal. She is a supporter of Farmers for Climate Solutions, a member of Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario and has a Masters in Environmental Studies from York University, where she focussed her research on regenerative farming. She and her Indigenous son, in collaboration with members of the local Indigenous community, are presently developing a program of Indigenous and regenerative land-based learning on their 16 acres near Guelph.
DALE STRONGLY ENCOURAGES YOU TO INVITE A FARMER/GARDENER WHO USES NON-REGENERATIVE FOOD-GROWING METHODS TO ATTEND A PERFORMANCE WITH YOU, RECOGNIZING THE IMPORTANCE OF NOT “SINGING TO THE CHOIR”.
Recommended Viewing:
- The Need to Grow (Food Revolution Network or YouTube)
- Kiss the Ground (Netflix or YouTube)
- An Optimist’s Guide to the Planet (Netflix or YouTube)
Dale performing street theatre at the COP 26 United Nation Climate Change Summit in Glasgow Scotland, 2021.
Dale was invited by the Newfoundland Food Producers' Forum to perform her one-woman show in October 2024.
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