Almonte Town Hall Earth Day Event!

Featuring a 30-minute one woman show entitled “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, chaining herself to a fence post and 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.

Written and performed by Dale Colleen Hamilton, She Won’t Come in from the Fields will be coming to Almonte on Tuesday, April 22 for one show at the Almonte Old Town Hall, as part of Earth Day celebrations in Mississippi Mills. The half-hour performance will be followed by a discussion with the audience about climate solutions and challenges in farming today, and explore how to dovetail different approaches to food production 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 member of Farmers for Climate Change and the Ecological Farmers’ Association of Ontario, and has a master’s in environmental studies from York University, where she focussed her research on regenerative farming. She has performed this show in fringe venues and in Glasgow, Scotland at the COP 26 UN Climate Change Summit.

This event is by donation. If you’d like to support the ongoing work of Climate Network Lanark, please visit our donation page at climatenetworklanark.ca/donate.

Whether or not you’re able to give, we’re so grateful you’re joining us!