Occupy the Farm Planter Box Rally • Saturday 5-19-12 3PM

May 19, 2012 at 12:00 am.

Categories: Announcements, Autonomous Action, Events, Other Committees

Followed by a Community Forum on Visions for Food Sovereignty and Food Justice

3 PM – Gather at the Gill Tract South Side: Monroe St. at San Pablo Ave

The Planter Box Rally will highlight that land access is fundamental to growing food in an urban environment. UC Berkeley may have forced the public off of the Gill Tract, yet still we farm. The community forum will contextualize the Gill Tract within the larger scope of food sovereignty and food justice issues that affect people throughout the Bay Area and beyond.

Come prepared to BUILD, PLANT and GROW on the Gill Tract South Side (AKA Albany Meadows).

We’ll need more:

wood, nails

paint, paint brushes

hand tools (drills, hammers, shovels, trowels)

seeds/seedlings – vegetables and wildflowers

water + watering cans

clay

compost, soil

and bring a friend (or two, or three)!

Farmland is for farming!

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