The Gardener & The Golfer

The Gardener & The Golfer

Date: Sunday May 17

Time: 2pm

Location: Stratford Perth Museum

Cost: By donation, please pre-register

In this sharp, funny, and surprisingly heartfelt one-woman show, next-door neighbours Mary and Bill couldn’t be more different. She’s a regenerative farmer with dirt under her nails; he’s a hedge fund manager who’d rather be on the golf course than in a debate over land use.

As tensions rise, their neighbourly friction turns into a full-on feud over land use and climate change. Will they find common ground, or will they stay stuck on opposite sides of the fence?

Dale Colleen Hamilton

Dale comes from a 5-generations-deep farm family and homesteads on her 16 acres near Guelph, Ontario. After a 45-year break from university, Dale went back to get her Masters in Environmental Studies at York U, where she focussed her research on regenerative farming. Dale has also been writing and producing community-engaged theatre for over forty years, including a play that sparked a movement to stop a rural estate housing development on her family’s original farm. Most recently she has written and is touring with a one-woman show about regenerative farming and soil health, with financial support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Soil Champions Committee of the Soil.