08/15/2026
This Tuesday, join us and the Hudson Food Collective for a theatrical performance by Dale Colleen Hamilton titled the Gardener and the Golfer.
In this sharp, funny, and 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 remain stuck on opposite sides of the fence?
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 focused 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 Conservation Council of Canada. She has performed her one-woman show in every province, plus the Yukon and NWT. She also performed for the Senate of Canada in Ottawa in 2025 and in Glasgow Scotland during the COP 26 UN Climate Change Summit.
Admission is free, donations are appreciated.
The Hudson Food Collective and Hudson Garden Club are thrilled to offer this sharp, funny, and heartfelt one-woman show by Dale Colleen Hamilton. In this
