Occupy the Farm

2016

When 200 farmers march to the gates of the last farmland in the urban East Bay near Oakland, they don’t carry signs protesting University of California’s plans to build a shopping center. Instead, they carry tents, tools and 15,000 seedlings. They clip the padlock off the gate and march onto the fields. What happens next will change the fate of the land and introduce a new strategy for activism.

Film screening of Occupy the Farm and panel discussion.

Panelists

Todd Darling

Filmmaker

Effie McDonald
Twilight Greenaway

Executive Editor, Civil Eats

Sibella Kraus

SAGE President and Founder, Agriculture and Food Systems Consultant

Films

Occupy the Farm
USA | 2014 | 107 mins. | Directed by Todd Darling
Urban farmers break onto land in San Francisco to plant acres of vegetables to prevent the land from being developed.