GUELPH – As part of a national tour, long-time Gueph/Eramosa resident Dale Colleen Hamilton will be performing her one-woman show about regenerative farming and climate solutions in Guelph, Rockwood and Eden Mills.
The 30-minute show is called “She Won’t Come in from the Fields,” and Hamilton’s first performance will take place in the Fellowship Room of Rockwood’s St. John’s Church, 112 Guelph St., on Dec. 11 at 7pm.
Subsequent performances will be given at the Eden Mills Community Hall, 104 York St., on Dec. 13 at 7pm, and in the Activity Room at 10 Carden St. in Guelph on Jan. 4 at 2pm.
Here’s how the plot is summed up: “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 reverse climate change.”
Each performance will be followed by an optional conversation with the audience about climate solutions and challenges in farming, looking at how to dovetail different approaches to food production for the benefit of farmers, consumers and the planet.
Hamilton comes from a family that has been farming in southwestern Ontario for six generations, and she has been writing and producing theatre for more than 40 years.
In the 1990s, she was elected to Eramosa Township council and appointed to the provincial Farm Products Appeal Tribunal.
She is a member of Farmers for Climate Change, the Ecological Farmers’ Association of Ontario and has a master’s in environmental studies from York University, where she focused her research on regenerative farming and arts-based environmental education.
All three performances are being offered for free.
