Articles Tagged “sustainable farming”

  • Farming Activists Preempt Secret Albany Council Harvest

    by Courtney Harrop on Jul 09, 2012 | 3 Comments

    As many as 75 Occupy the Farm farmers and activists preempted Saturday an Albany Council invite-only harvest of crops planted by the group in April at the Gill Tract, a 5-acre plot of class 1 agricultural land owned by UC Berkeley and used for crop research, and delivered to the UC Berkeley Chancellor a barrow’s-full of bolted lettuce in a symbolic gesture.

    Posted in Environment, Land Use, News, Politics

  • occupy the farm: gill tract, uc berkeley, albany

    #OccupyTheFarm: Disobey with Great Love

    by Justin Alan Ryan on Apr 28, 2012 | No Comments

    With horns playing, banners flying, and traffic briefly stopping, the Earth Day march from Ohlone Park in Berkeley started off with the hallmark signs of a bay area occupy protest, but something was different. There was a bold, if cautious optimism amongst this crowd.

    Posted in Land Use