Solidarity Seeds, 2025.
Installation view.

Solidarity Seeds
By Anélia Victor and Fatin Ishraq

Solidarity Seeds engages precarious urban agricultural workers across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) — those growing food under conditions that rarely feed them back. Despite meeting urgent needs for local, healthy food access, these workers continue to navigate hostile environments: ongoing discrimination, exploitative workloads, and workplace retaliation, particularly for queer and trans growers. Insights from a full-day gathering focused on co-learning urban agricultural and land liberation practices will be transformed into a collective zine and a series of ceramic seedling pods — vessels that carry both story and seed — to be shared with the public through an exhibition.

Solidarity Seeds is part of PEERS Public Projects, an artist residency program that supports the development of community-engaged public artworks produced by Whippersnapper Gallery. The program includes a horizontal mentorship model designed for emerging artists and collectives to deepen their skills in creating consent-based, ethical, and rigorous community-engaged and public art projects.

The PEERS program is funded by the Canada Council for the Arts.

Documentation by Wend Yasen.