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'Occupy the Farm' illustrates Berkeley's battle with farmers
2014-11-17 04:34:06| Grocery - Topix.net
The Occupy movement has been well documented, but the activists in Todd Darling's satisfying "Occupy the Farm" took a different approach to their 2012 battle to save a tract of land from commercial development. When UC Berkeley revealed plans to turn the site of what had been an agricultural center in Northern California into a mixed-use complex anchored by a Whole Foods Market, about 200 urban farmers descended on the property.
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