Bought the Farm

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)