Over 100 community activists occupied and farmed a portion of UC-owned research land in Albany this weekend in the latest iteration of the Occupy the Farm movement. 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…
Whole Foods has canceled its plans to build a new location on the Gill Tract in Albany, representatives announced Friday. Read More…
Although he is billed as a mushroom farmer on the currently-airing ABC television series, “The Bachelorette,” Alejandro Velez looks nothing of the sort. Instead of toiling away in a field all day, the affable 25-year-old UC Berkeley alumnus spends his time in a West Oakland warehouse spreading knowledge about growing Read More…
ALBANY, Calif. — Occupy the Farm protesters broke into UC-owned research land in Albany for the fifth time on Sunday to tend to crops they planted there in the spring. As UCPD monitored the gate, protesters cut a hole in the fence that surrounds the Gill Tract research land to Read More…
