Occupy the Farm

*Occupy the Farm* The events are true, names have been changed to protect the innocent. Sunday, May 6th, I went to Gill Track Farm in Albany. Laura picked me up from B.A.R.T. with shovel and tiller in hand. We arrived, unpacked in the makeshift parking lot across from the Farm, and were greeted by Ally in the Information Booth. I began dialogue with two women by the same name, Rachelle [...]

 

Occupy the Farm Activists Reclaim Prime Urban Agricultural Land

  22 April 2012 Albany, California Occupy the Farm, a coalition of local residents, farmers, students, researchers, and activists are planting over 15,000 seedlings at the Gill Tract, the last remaining 10 acres of Class I agricultural soil in the urbanized East Bay area. The Gill Tract is public land administered by the University of California, which plans to sell it to private developers. For decades the UC has thwarted [...]