About the event

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, 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.

The performance will be followed by a conversation with the audience, exploring how to dovetail different approaches to food production for the benefit of farmers, consumers and the planet.

Venue

Salle Marie Lynne Bernard, St Boniface Library, 2nd floor, 100-131 Provencher Blvd., Winnipeg

About Dale

Dale has been writing and producing theatre for over forty years and comes from a 6-generations-deep farm family in southwestern Ontario. Dale has a Masters in Environmental Studies from York University, where she focused her research on regenerative farming. She performed her one-woman show in fringe venues and in the streets of Glasgow Scotland at the COP26 UN Climate Change Summit. Dale also toured her show across the country, including the Yukon and NWT, with funding from the Canada Council for the Arts; the Soil Champions Committee. In May she performed it for the Senate of Canada in Ottawa, at the invitation of the Standing Committee on Agriculture and in July is presenting at Soils for our Future, an international soil health conference in Winnipeg.

Recommended Viewing on YouTube

The Need to Grow (Food Revolution Network), Kiss the Ground, Common Ground, Carbon Cowboys and An Optimist’s Guide to the Planet.

RSVP is encouraged, but feel free to drop in on the day of the event!