Spring is a busy time for a maize geneticist. Experiments have to be planned, students have to be recruited and thousand of seeds have to be carefully organized and packaged for planting. It is important to get everything just right, because we only get one opportunity to do large-scale field Read More…
The food movement is vibrant at UC Berkeley. On the weekend of April 21, a group of locals — including some students and faculty members — began an ongoing occupation and planting of the Gill Tract farmland that was about to be plowed and cultivated for federally funded UC researchers Read More…
Dozens of advocates of community urban farming took over the university’s Gill Tract on Earth Day, April 22, establishing a camp and planting about two acres of vegetable crops. Their goal is to prevent development of this five-acre piece of land that represents one the few remaining agricultural spaces with Read More…
Twelve weeks after Occupy the Farm embarked on an arduous pursuit of local farming, the shine of the once promising movement has withered away like the leaves of a weary crop. We are in favor of the council’s decision and frustrated by the uncooperative approach of the protesters.
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The raid of the Occupy the Farm encampment was implemented successfully, with the arrest of nine protesters and without violence. But we are alarmed by the purported cost of more than $300,000. Read More…
A recent Albany City Council vote has removed a hurdle in the University of California’s plans for the development of a grocery store, senior housing complex and mixed-retail center on UC-owned land in Albany. Read More…
Acting under the direction of campus administrators, UC Berkeley officials cleared crops Friday planted by Occupy the Farm protesters at UC-owned research land in Albany. Read More…
The greatest accomplishments often flourish from the smallest, most radical beginnings. A continued protest on University of California research land in Albany presents an opportune moment for productive change in the local community. Occupy demonstrators set up an encampment Sunday on a UC Berkeley-administered research plot in Albany known as Read More…
Occupy the Farm protesters held a community meeting Wednesday at UC Berkeley to outline a vision for the future of the Gill Tract. Read More…
UC Berkeley leadership has transferred administrative authority to develop UC-owned research land in Albany to the campus College of Natural Resources, the college’s dean announced at an Albany City Council meeting Sept. 18. By gaining the authority to oversee the agricultural support services and growing grounds on the Gill Tract Read More…
