Place
Berkeley
Also known as: Berkeley, CA, Berkeley, California
An East Bay city of ~120,000 anchored by UC Berkeley (founded 1868, the flagship of the University of California system). The post-1960s seedbed of the Free Speech Movement, the disability-rights movement, the U.S. organic-food movement (Chez Panisse 1971, the Edible Schoolyard 1995), and one of the densest concentrations of food cooperatives, lineage-authorized contemplative-practice institutions, and ecological-design organizations in the country.
What this is
Berkeley sits on the East Bay shore of San Francisco Bay, north of Oakland, anchored by the University of California (founded 1868). The post-1960s waves of student activism, organic-food entrepreneurship, contemplative practice, and ecological-design work have made the city one of the most consequential small cities in the U.S. for values-aligned commerce — Chez Panisse opened 1971, Berkeley Bowl 1977, the Edible Schoolyard 1995, and a continuous independent grocery + food-coop + farmers-market culture spanning sixty years.
Listings in Berkeley
- berkeley-bowl — the produce-anchored independent grocery, since 1977
- edible-schoolyard — Alice Waters’s Edible Schoolyard at MLK Jr. Middle School, since 1995
Bioregional context
Files under san-francisco-bay-area. Pairs with san-francisco across the bay and woodacre inland in Marin for the bioregion’s principal urban + retreat-corridor coverage.
See also
Auto-generated from this entry’s typed relations: frontmatter, grouped by relation type so the editorial signal isn’t flattened.
- Member of: place
- Contained by: san-francisco-bay-area
- Contains: berkeley-bowl · ecology-center-farmers-market · edible-schoolyard · lhasa-karnak · north-berkeley-farmers-market
Sources
What links here, and how
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Practical
contained by
- Berkeley Bowl two Berkeley locations — Oregon Street since 1999, Heinz Avenue since 2009
- Berkeley Farmers' Markets three weekly markets across Downtown, North, and South Berkeley
- The Edible Schoolyard 1-acre garden + kitchen classroom at MLK Middle School in central Berkeley
- Lhasa Karnak Herb Company two-location Berkeley herbal apothecary since 1970
- North Berkeley Farmers' Market North Berkeley site of the Berkeley Farmers' Market network
General
shares approach with
- San Francisco Bay auto-linked from body mention
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