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 for the next 10 years, J. Keith Gilless, the college’s dean, said the college is currently moving forward with coordinating activities that deal with urban agriculture, food policy, food justice and sustainable food systems at the tract, which has been the site of protests by members of Occupy the Farm, who have planted and harvested crops on a portion of the land since April.
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