LOS ANGELES, May 24 (UPI) -- Folk singer Joan Baez and actress Darryl Hannah have taken up residence with protesters trying to save a 14-acre urban garden in Los Angeles.
Baez and Julia "Butterfly" Hill, who spent two years perched in a California redwood, climbed a tree on the property Wednesday in an effort to stop the land's owner from building a warehouse on the garden site, KNBC-TV, Los Angeles, reported.
The land was seized by the city as eminent domain in the 1980s and leased to the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank in 1992. Since then, it has been tended by about 350 farmers, the TV station said.
But the land reverted back to its original owner in 2003 and the city was unable to raise the $60 million needed to buy it back.
Demonstrators with candles are now occupying the land in an effort to convince the owner to keep their farm intact.
"I'm going to stay here and sleep here, with the people that are camping here to watch the farm," Hannah said.
