In 2006, supporters Charlie Lopez, 15, left, and Ahmad-Jamal Butler, 29, right, hang a banner in support of saving the South Central Farm. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)
Security guards and the bulldozer driver keep a man from shoving a stick down the exhaust pipe after nearly a dozen protesters rushed onto the South Central Farm during a protest in 2006. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
Actress Daryl Hannah hoists herself onto a perch for her watch at the South Central Farm during efforts to save it in 2006. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
Daryl Hannah meets with supporters at the farm in 2006. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)
Farmers hold a candlelight vigil in 2006. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)
Protesters stare at a security guard as he tends to a gate at the South Central Farm on the first day of demolition in 2006. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
Farmer Roberto Macias weeps as the farm is bulldozed in 2006. Macias said he had farmed there since 1992. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
A demonstrator watches a bulldozer ripping through the vegetation at the South Central Farm in 2006. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
The farm is gone but that hasn’t kept plants from growing wild at the site. (Benjamin Reed / Los Angeles Times)
