THE BEGINNING
IT STARTED WITH SEEDS FROM BACK HOME.
Spring 2020. The world had stopped. A father and his son stood in a backyard in Burlington, Ontario, pressing pepper seeds into soil.
Not seedlings from a garden center, seeds carried from the countries that shaped them. Seeds that had crossed oceans in coat pockets and carry-on bags, passed between cousins and aunts, planted and replanted in new soil every season—a quiet ritual of not forgetting.
When the first plants broke through the ground, they weren't just growing peppers.
They were growing memory.