Zócalo Public Square

After the devastating L.A. riots in 1992, the South Central Farmers worked to heal one of the country’s most blighted neighborhoods by planting a garden, letting families grow their own food and rebuild their community. But the fourteen-acre site became the subject of a fierce and ongoing dispute between the mostly immigrant farmers and the developer who bought the land below market price and planned to build a warehouse on it. Capturing the story of the country’s largest urban farm, Scott Hamilton Kennedy, producer and director of the Oscar-nominated documentary “The Garden,“ visits Zócalo to screen his work and discuss with actress and environmentalist Daryl Hannah and South Central Farmers activist Tezozomoc the crucial issues it raises about development, environment, power, money and race in Los Angeles.