Daryl Hannah was among several protestors arrested in Los Angeles's South Central Urban Garden on Tuesday.
The Kill Bill actress, 45, and about 25 immigrant farmers and their supporters were campaigning to save the 14-acre fruit and vegetable garden from destruction, Reuters reports.
At the time of her arrest on trespassing charges, Hannah was perched 40 feet above the ground in a walnut tree. She had been living in the tree for three weeks and had said she planned to resist arrest by peaceful means.
"I'm very confident this is the morally right thing to do, to take a principled stand in solidarity with the farmers," she told the Associated Press via cell phone. Asked if she was willing to risk arrest, she said, "I'm planning on holding my position."
Los Angeles Sheriff's Department spokesperson Kerri Webb said some protesters chained themselves to picnic tables and concrete barrels to resist eviction from the garden, which the owner of the land, Ralph Horowitz, seeks to replace with a warehouse.
In the past three weeks, folk singer Joan Baez and anti-logging activist Julia "Butterfly" Hill have taken shifts in the walnut tree, and country singer Willie Nelson also dropped by – but none were in the garden like Hannah when police showed up without notice at daybreak.
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