Farm
In the 1970s, through the colonial legal system, Lola's grandparents acquired 25 acres in Adjala-Tosorontio, land that has been home to the Wendat (Huron), Haudenosaunee, and Anishinaabe peoples, including the Mississaugas and Ojibwe, since time immemorial. Shaped by millennia of wisdom and tradition, this land holds the complexities of agricultural practices disrupted by colonization. As a descendant of European settlers, they reflect deeply on what it means to cultivate here, to host, and to rest upon land with such a storied past. She stands at the threshold of inheritance and obligation, fingers in soil that remembers ceremonies she was never taught. They move through the fields with questions rather than certainty, knowing that to grow food here requires more than water and sunlight, it demands truth. This journey requires listening with the whole body, a slow unlearning of extraction, a patient weaving of accountability. Each seed planted is both question and promise. They recognize that acknowledgment of past wrongs is merely the beginning, a first breath in a longer ceremony of repair. The work is ongoing, like the seasons themselves, cyclical and demanding. Through these efforts, Lola hopes to contribute, however subtly, to the healing of the soil and the mending of relationships fractured by time and power. To farm here is to listen, to learn, and to remember that the earth holds stories far older than any fence or deed.
