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An evacuation warning has been issued for zone SON-1D2.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A temporary evacuation point has been set up at Laguna High School in Forestville.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Turbeville said fire crews were working with the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office and Department of Emergency Management to reopen Highway 1 in the next one to two days, and begin lifting evacuation orders as soon as Friday evening and Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Cal Fire Napa-Sonoma-Lake Unit spokesperson Tyree Zander said crews were able to make progress overnight Thursday after strong winds died down, and were hoping for conditions to remain calm throughout Friday. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"940\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/Screenshot-2026-07-31-at-12.03.06-PM-e1785524872205.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12093433\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/Screenshot-2026-07-31-at-12.03.06-PM-e1785524872205.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/Screenshot-2026-07-31-at-12.03.06-PM-e1785524872205-160x75.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/Screenshot-2026-07-31-at-12.03.06-PM-e1785524872205-1536x722.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Woodside Fire has burned 140 acres, forcing Sonoma Coast evacuations and a summer camp closure. (Courtesy of Cal Fire)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We’re hoping that we’re not [going to] have the winds that we had yesterday,” he said. “One of the big factors … was there were winds out here on the coast, which are typical afternoon conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Zander warned Bay Area residents to be conscientious not to spark a fire this weekend, when the state is expecting a heat wave. He urged people to check that their trailer chains are lifted off the ground and brakes aren’t sparking. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Remember to stay fire safe if you’re going to choose to go out and do something this weekend,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The cause of the fire is under investigation. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/dventon\">\u003cem>Danielle Venton\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a developing story and will be updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Petaluma followed suit in May 2021 by adopting an all-electric ordinance that expanded the ban to include “substantial building alterations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both cities left specific exceptions for the use of portable propane appliances in outdoor cooking and heating areas. Despite some carve-outs, U.S. attorneys argued that these local ordinances violate a \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/94th-congress/senate-bill/622\">1975 law\u003c/a> granting the federal government the sole authority to set “energy use” standards for products such as stoves and water heaters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By banning the fuel gas piping “in pursuit of electrification,” the government argued, the cities “undermine and conflict with” federal energy policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The natural gas bans not only impose crushing costs on California residents but are also unlawful,” the formal complaint stated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068892\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1795px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068892\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/naturalgas_001_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1795\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/naturalgas_001_qed.jpg 1795w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/naturalgas_001_qed-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/naturalgas_001_qed-1536x1141.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1795px) 100vw, 1795px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Kenmore natural gas stove on July 17, 2019. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Moore/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Morgan Hill City Attorney Donald Larkin told KQED the city has already shifted its practices following a 2024 ruling from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. That case, \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2023/04/17/21-16278.pdf\">California Restaurant Association v. 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However, Turner expressed concern over California’s “overly aggressive push” to electrify homes already plumbed with gas, calling the policy “divorced from reality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Homeowners are being pushed toward expensive appliance conversions while PG&E, already unable to deliver reliable, affordable power, struggles to meet existing demand,” Turner said. “Federal leadership should be stepping in to slow or eliminate unrealistic timelines and protect communities from mandates that outpace the very systems required to sustain them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal case relies on the 1975 law, the U.S. Energy Policy and Conservation Act, to argue that a building code prohibiting gas pipes is effectively a ban on the appliances themselves. This builds on the 2024 Berkeley ruling, which established that cities cannot indirectly block the use of gas appliances by cutting off the infrastructure needed for them to function.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. lawyers argued that allowing these local bans to stand would create a “patchwork of inconsistent regulations” that would burden manufacturers and distributors nationwide. They claim that Congress intentionally created a uniform national standard to prevent exactly this type of local intervention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Petaluma Mayor Kevin McDonnell called the lawsuit “very sudden and unexpected” in a statement and referred all further comments to the city attorney. In a follow-up statement, city officials echoed Morgan Hill’s defense, calling the legal action an “unnecessary effort” to compel compliance with a law the city is already following.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials stated that Petaluma has not enforced its 2021 electrification regulations since the 9th Circuit ruling and has not denied any permit applications based on those rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In any event, the City has observed that developers have generally opted voluntarily to install electric utilities,” the city said in a statement. Like Morgan Hill, Petaluma officials say they only became aware of the complaint through press inquiries and maintain that the litigation is unnecessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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The Sonoma County district attorney’s office had asked the judge to issue a 180-day sentence, calling Rosenberg’s lack of remorse “staggering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12066009\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12066009\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251203-ZOE-ROSENBERG-SENTENCING_AC-14-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251203-ZOE-ROSENBERG-SENTENCING_AC-14-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251203-ZOE-ROSENBERG-SENTENCING_AC-14-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251203-ZOE-ROSENBERG-SENTENCING_AC-14-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fellow animal rights activist Andrew Stepanian delivers a speech to a crowd gathered in support of Zoe Rosenberg in front of the Superior Court of California on Dec. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the sentencing hearing, Rosenberg’s attorneys argued a jail sentence could put her health at risk, as she has diabetes and gastroparesis, which requires her to carry an insulin pump and feeding tube.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the district attorney said all of Rosenberg’s medical needs — and even her vegan diet — would be fully accommodated in jail, and urged the judge not to take that into account in issuing a sentence.[aside postID=news_12065754 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/Sonoma-Animal-Trial-05-KQED.jpg']\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055745/berkeley-animal-activist-faces-prison-in-sonoma-chicken-theft-case\">The sentencing marks the end\u003c/a> of the high-profile criminal case that spiraled out of a series of break-ins to Petaluma Poultry. On four separate occasions, prosecutors said, Rosenberg and a group of organizers with the Berkeley-based animal rights group Direct Action Everywhere entered the farm without permission, went through paperwork and computers, affixed GPS monitors to delivery vehicles and ultimately stole four chickens off a truck bed in June 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosenberg never denied the allegations against her. She said the chickens were covered in scratches and bruises and needed to be “rescued.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Direct Action Everywhere is known for its “\u003ca href=\"https://www.directactioneverywhere.com/open-rescue\">open rescues\u003c/a>,” in which activists enter farms where they believe animals are being abused and remove them. 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"content": "\u003cp>UC Berkeley student and animal rights activist Zoe Rosenberg has been found guilty of all counts, including felony conspiracy, after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055745/berkeley-animal-activist-faces-prison-in-sonoma-chicken-theft-case\">taking four chickens from a Sonoma County poultry facility\u003c/a> two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She could now face up to four and a half years in prison for her role in the 2023 heist, which her attorneys tried to paint as a “rescue” of mistreated, bruised and scratched-up animals. She will be sentenced on Dec. 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether Rosenberg, 23, took the chickens from Petaluma Poultry was not in question — video footage captured by animal rights group Direct Action Everywhere, where Rosenberg is an organizer, showed her enter the farm in protective gear, pluck four chickens from crates on a truck bed and carry them off of the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, her three-week trial, which brought national attention to the issues of factory farming and animal welfare, focused primarily on intent. Rosenberg’s attorneys tried to persuade the jury that her goal was not to break the law but to “help” birds that Rosenberg said were sick, scratched and bruised, while prosecutors argued the theft was a felony that goes beyond animal welfare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a whodunit, it’s really a whydunit,” Chris Carraway, Rosenberg’s lawyer, told KQED ahead of her trial’s opening in September. “Zoe believed that this conduct was permissible under the circumstances.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011468\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-18-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-18-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011468\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-18-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-18-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-18-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-18-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-18-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-18-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rhode Island Red chickens at Weber Family Farms in Petaluma on Oct. 28, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office alleged that Rosenberg, an organizer for animal rights group Direct Action Everywhere, visited Petaluma Poultry multiple times without authorization, and tagged a dozen farm delivery vehicles with GPS trackers, in the spring of 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June of that year, prosecutors said, she entered the farm in protective gear, examined crates of chickens on a truck bed, and placed four in a red bucket while about 50 DxE activists rallied outside. The incident was captured in video footage, viewed by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosenberg’s attorneys, Carraway and Kevin Little, tried to posit that her actions came after efforts to report mistreatment at Petaluma Poultry to local authorities, and that she did not have criminal intent when she took the chickens off the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the jury disagreed, finding her guilty on all counts Wednesday, including felony conspiracy, as well as the two misdemeanors for trespassing on various occasions and a third for tampering with a vehicle or its contents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision could have reverberating effects throughout the country, as DxE has escalated such missions — \u003ca href=\"https://www.motherjones.com/food/2017/11/inside-the-bold-new-animal-liberation-movement-no-masks-no-regrets-all-the-risk/\">referred to as “open rescues\u003c/a>” — in recent years.[aside postID=news_12055745 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Sonoma-Animal-Trial-02-KQED.jpg']Animal activists have said they’re taking animals from farms where they believe they’re suffering, and at least two juries in recent related cases seemed to agree. Activists in Utah and Merced County were cleared of wrongdoing following similar actions, though a Sonoma County court found DxE co-founder Wayne Hsiung guilty of felony conspiracy in 2023 for actions he took during Sonoma County farm protests in 2018 and 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked on the stand last week if she wants open rescue “to be something that happens everywhere,” Rosenberg told prosecutors: “Yes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosenberg’s defense team is expected to appeal, creating the opportunity to set a legal precedent for the practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County farmers have called DxE “extremist,” and condemned the use of open rescue as dangerous and unlawful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having to deal with a bunch of activists that are trying to break into your operation, are putting tracking devices on farm vehicles so they can see where the farm vehicles are — that goes beyond the line,” said Mike Weber, who co-owns a chicken farm in Petaluma targeted by DxE in 2018. “That has nothing to do with animal welfare. I’d like to see that come to an end.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosenberg’s lawyers had also tried to downplay her involvement in the incident, relying on \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2025/10/16/former-dxe-member-says-she-alone-led-petaluma-poultry-break-ins-tied-to-zoe-rosenberg-case/\">testimony from former DxE activist, Raven Deerbrook\u003c/a>, who was Rosenberg’s co-defendant before reaching a plea deal over the summer. Deerbrook told the jury that she had been investigating conditions and Petaluma Poultry prior to Rosenberg’s involvement, and spearheaded the series of break-ins that led to the chicken capture, the \u003cem>Press Democrat \u003c/em>reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deerbrook testified that she placed the GPS trackers, used bolt cutters to get through a fence and brought the buckets used to transport the chickens. She pled no contest to two misdemeanor charges in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But prosecutors have pointed to a long history of similar activism by Rosenberg. Deputy District Attorney Matt Hobson showed the jury photos of her \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/ClEiueZApk0/\">pouring fake blood on the floor of a Safeway\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/COs_vLPpnsh/\">posing in red-hued water in a fountain at UC Berkeley\u003c/a>, holding a sign that said “UC Berkeley drop factory farms,” the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2025/10/23/from-nba-arrest-to-bloody-fountain-prosecutors-challenge-zoe-rosenbergs-role-in-petaluma-poultry-raid/\">\u003cem>Press Democrat \u003c/em>reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosenberg was also previously arrested following a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DxEverywhere/status/1515434238295695363/photo/1\">2022 NBA playoff game\u003c/a>, where she chained herself to a basketball hoop in protest of former Minnesota Timberwolves’ owner Glen Taylor. Direct Action Everywhere claimed responsibility for that protest as part of ongoing efforts to get Taylor to step down over his financial backing of an Iowa-based egg farm they say participated in animal cruelty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ongoing prosecution is not about silencing speech — it is about holding accountable a pattern of calculated, unlawful activity,” a Petaluma Poultry spokesperson said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosenberg was not taken into custody following the decision, but Judge Kenneth Gnoss mandated that she wear a GPS-equipped ankle monitor and stay 500 feet from Petaluma Poultry and all Perdue facilities. She was also ordered not to contact six individuals believed to be fellow activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DxE said on appeal, Rosenberg’s team will fight for permission to include more evidence on animal cruelty, and to make a necessity defense, or argument that Rosenberg’s actions were necessary to prevent imminent harm. According to the Press Democrat, they were barred ahead of this trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization said the four chickens, who Rosenberg renamed Poppy, Ivy, Aster and Azalea, were safe at a “sanctuary for rescued animals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will not apologize for taking sick, neglected animals to get medical care,” Rosenberg said in a statement following her conviction. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that her trial is over, Rosenberg said she plans to focus on reporting alleged crimes and safety violations at Petaluma Poultry. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope that they will use the resources that they now have to investigate the real crime and to help real animals whose safety is threatened,” she told reporters Thursday. “If they want to put me in jail, fine, but please give these animals the justice that they deserve.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/dcronin\">\u003cem>Dana Cronin\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/gmeline\">\u003cem>Gabe Meline\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>UC Berkeley student and animal rights activist Zoe Rosenberg has been found guilty of all counts, including felony conspiracy, after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055745/berkeley-animal-activist-faces-prison-in-sonoma-chicken-theft-case\">taking four chickens from a Sonoma County poultry facility\u003c/a> two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She could now face up to four and a half years in prison for her role in the 2023 heist, which her attorneys tried to paint as a “rescue” of mistreated, bruised and scratched-up animals. She will be sentenced on Dec. 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether Rosenberg, 23, took the chickens from Petaluma Poultry was not in question — video footage captured by animal rights group Direct Action Everywhere, where Rosenberg is an organizer, showed her enter the farm in protective gear, pluck four chickens from crates on a truck bed and carry them off of the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, her three-week trial, which brought national attention to the issues of factory farming and animal welfare, focused primarily on intent. Rosenberg’s attorneys tried to persuade the jury that her goal was not to break the law but to “help” birds that Rosenberg said were sick, scratched and bruised, while prosecutors argued the theft was a felony that goes beyond animal welfare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a whodunit, it’s really a whydunit,” Chris Carraway, Rosenberg’s lawyer, told KQED ahead of her trial’s opening in September. “Zoe believed that this conduct was permissible under the circumstances.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011468\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-18-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-18-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011468\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-18-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-18-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-18-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-18-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-18-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-18-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rhode Island Red chickens at Weber Family Farms in Petaluma on Oct. 28, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office alleged that Rosenberg, an organizer for animal rights group Direct Action Everywhere, visited Petaluma Poultry multiple times without authorization, and tagged a dozen farm delivery vehicles with GPS trackers, in the spring of 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June of that year, prosecutors said, she entered the farm in protective gear, examined crates of chickens on a truck bed, and placed four in a red bucket while about 50 DxE activists rallied outside. The incident was captured in video footage, viewed by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosenberg’s attorneys, Carraway and Kevin Little, tried to posit that her actions came after efforts to report mistreatment at Petaluma Poultry to local authorities, and that she did not have criminal intent when she took the chickens off the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the jury disagreed, finding her guilty on all counts Wednesday, including felony conspiracy, as well as the two misdemeanors for trespassing on various occasions and a third for tampering with a vehicle or its contents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision could have reverberating effects throughout the country, as DxE has escalated such missions — \u003ca href=\"https://www.motherjones.com/food/2017/11/inside-the-bold-new-animal-liberation-movement-no-masks-no-regrets-all-the-risk/\">referred to as “open rescues\u003c/a>” — in recent years.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Animal activists have said they’re taking animals from farms where they believe they’re suffering, and at least two juries in recent related cases seemed to agree. Activists in Utah and Merced County were cleared of wrongdoing following similar actions, though a Sonoma County court found DxE co-founder Wayne Hsiung guilty of felony conspiracy in 2023 for actions he took during Sonoma County farm protests in 2018 and 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked on the stand last week if she wants open rescue “to be something that happens everywhere,” Rosenberg told prosecutors: “Yes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosenberg’s defense team is expected to appeal, creating the opportunity to set a legal precedent for the practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County farmers have called DxE “extremist,” and condemned the use of open rescue as dangerous and unlawful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having to deal with a bunch of activists that are trying to break into your operation, are putting tracking devices on farm vehicles so they can see where the farm vehicles are — that goes beyond the line,” said Mike Weber, who co-owns a chicken farm in Petaluma targeted by DxE in 2018. “That has nothing to do with animal welfare. I’d like to see that come to an end.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosenberg’s lawyers had also tried to downplay her involvement in the incident, relying on \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2025/10/16/former-dxe-member-says-she-alone-led-petaluma-poultry-break-ins-tied-to-zoe-rosenberg-case/\">testimony from former DxE activist, Raven Deerbrook\u003c/a>, who was Rosenberg’s co-defendant before reaching a plea deal over the summer. Deerbrook told the jury that she had been investigating conditions and Petaluma Poultry prior to Rosenberg’s involvement, and spearheaded the series of break-ins that led to the chicken capture, the \u003cem>Press Democrat \u003c/em>reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deerbrook testified that she placed the GPS trackers, used bolt cutters to get through a fence and brought the buckets used to transport the chickens. She pled no contest to two misdemeanor charges in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But prosecutors have pointed to a long history of similar activism by Rosenberg. Deputy District Attorney Matt Hobson showed the jury photos of her \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/ClEiueZApk0/\">pouring fake blood on the floor of a Safeway\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/COs_vLPpnsh/\">posing in red-hued water in a fountain at UC Berkeley\u003c/a>, holding a sign that said “UC Berkeley drop factory farms,” the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2025/10/23/from-nba-arrest-to-bloody-fountain-prosecutors-challenge-zoe-rosenbergs-role-in-petaluma-poultry-raid/\">\u003cem>Press Democrat \u003c/em>reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosenberg was also previously arrested following a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DxEverywhere/status/1515434238295695363/photo/1\">2022 NBA playoff game\u003c/a>, where she chained herself to a basketball hoop in protest of former Minnesota Timberwolves’ owner Glen Taylor. Direct Action Everywhere claimed responsibility for that protest as part of ongoing efforts to get Taylor to step down over his financial backing of an Iowa-based egg farm they say participated in animal cruelty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ongoing prosecution is not about silencing speech — it is about holding accountable a pattern of calculated, unlawful activity,” a Petaluma Poultry spokesperson said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosenberg was not taken into custody following the decision, but Judge Kenneth Gnoss mandated that she wear a GPS-equipped ankle monitor and stay 500 feet from Petaluma Poultry and all Perdue facilities. She was also ordered not to contact six individuals believed to be fellow activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DxE said on appeal, Rosenberg’s team will fight for permission to include more evidence on animal cruelty, and to make a necessity defense, or argument that Rosenberg’s actions were necessary to prevent imminent harm. According to the Press Democrat, they were barred ahead of this trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization said the four chickens, who Rosenberg renamed Poppy, Ivy, Aster and Azalea, were safe at a “sanctuary for rescued animals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will not apologize for taking sick, neglected animals to get medical care,” Rosenberg said in a statement following her conviction. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that her trial is over, Rosenberg said she plans to focus on reporting alleged crimes and safety violations at Petaluma Poultry. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope that they will use the resources that they now have to investigate the real crime and to help real animals whose safety is threatened,” she told reporters Thursday. “If they want to put me in jail, fine, but please give these animals the justice that they deserve.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/dcronin\">\u003cem>Dana Cronin\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/gmeline\">\u003cem>Gabe Meline\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Jim Groverman, the owner of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/petaluma\">Petaluma\u003c/a> Pumpkin Patch and Amazing Corn Maze, has been building corn mazes for more than 30 years. And he does it all by hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t map anything out,” he said. “I do it all in my head.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While other creations vie for the “biggest corn maze in the world” title — including \u003ca href=\"https://www.coolpatchpumpkins.com/\">Dixon’s record-holding Cool Patch Pumpkins\u003c/a> — Groverman’s \u003ca href=\"https://petalumapumpkinpatch.com/corn-maze/\">four-acre corn maze\u003c/a> holds a different charm. And it’s just one of many Bay Area corn mazes in full holiday swing this month, offering the public a chance to solve these life-sized puzzles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Experttipsforsolvingacornmaze\">Expert tips for solving a corn maze\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#bay-area-corn-maze-near-me\">Bay Area corn mazes to visit this spooky season\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Some corn mazes, like Groverman’s, are hand-cut with just one way in and out. Others boast intricate patterns and hidden checkpoints — not to mention all the other activities on the farm during fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read on to find out how the Bay Area’s corn mazes are made, with expert tips from their creators on how to get out of them. And if you’re eager for a challenge, we’ve got a roundup of Bay Area corn mazes where you can get lost in the stalks yourself.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How is a corn maze made?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>How corn maze creators actually design and build their labyrinths can be very different from farm to farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Groverman, the key to a solid corn maze — like any crop, is “good soil.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting in March, he takes soil samples, adding fertilizers as needed, before working the soil and preparing it for planting. While the old saying says corn should be \u003ca href=\"https://www.wisfarmer.com/story/news/2025/07/02/knee-high-by-fourth-of-july-adage-is-becoming-obsolete-heres-why/84426153007/\">“knee high at the Fourth of July\u003c/a>,” Groverman waits until the end of June to plant, so his stalks can still be that welcoming green color in time for his October maze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12059448\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12059448 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/PetalumaCornMaze1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/PetalumaCornMaze1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/PetalumaCornMaze1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/PetalumaCornMaze1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The corn kernel sandbox at the Petaluma Pumpkin Patch and Amazing Corn Maze. Jim Groverman, owner of the Petaluma Pumpkin Patch, has been building corn mazes for more than 30 years. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Petaluma Pumpkin Patch and Amazing Corn Maze)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Groverman plants 30,000 seeds per acre in total — 7 inches apart, in rows 2-and-a-half feet apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All summer long, he weeds the rows to keep the crows out of the young stalks, because “they’ll just go along and pull the corn right out of the ground” at that height.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the corn gets tall enough, Groverman grabs his shovel and gets to work sculpting his maze. With a team of two, just making the pathway takes four to five eight-hour days, “at least,” he said. “I try to have it all made and completed by the first of August.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final touch: Groverman then lets the remaining corn grow tall until October, when he opens his doors to the public.[aside postID=news_12054079 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-11-BL-KQED.jpg']Frank Andreotti, farm manager at \u003ca href=\"https://andreottifamilyfarm.com/\">Andreotti Family Farm\u003c/a> in Half Moon Bay, takes a similar freehand approach — but with a little more power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all his corn has grown in, Andreotti constructs his 10-acre corn maze in just a few hours by plowing a 6-foot-wide path with a tractor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I’m driving through, I just have in my mind the outlay of the entire field,” he said. “It’s like freehand painting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Denise Fantozzi, on the other hand, is one farm owner who took the GPS route — and it’s paid off. Each year at Fantozzi Farms, located in the Central Valley, \u003ca href=\"https://fantozzifarms.com/corn-maze/\">she and her husband dream up a new design for the maze\u003c/a>, which is actually three mazes in one. The pair works with a company called Maze Play to input the design into a GPS and then, when the stalks are about 3 feet tall, they cut the maze exactly to the design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s theme is how food goes from the farm to the grocery store to the table, Fantozzi said. The smallest of the mazes is designed to be short and easy for school groups to complete, featuring animal tracks that kids can identify as they navigate the maze. The second-largest maze invites older children to play “Farm Scene Investigation,” a Clue-like game in which they can search for hidden pictures in the maze to identify which animals stole Farmer Joe’s pies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest of the mazes, for teens and adults, includes 12 hidden checkpoints and can take anywhere from 40 minutes to two hours to complete, Fantozzi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an intricate design every year,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Experttipsforsolvingacornmaze\">\u003c/a>What are some top tips for solving a corn maze?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Consider shelling out for the map\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groverman’s is a traditional maze, with one way in and one way out — and to complete it, you have to pass through each corner and climb two towers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You really have to cover the whole area,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12059308\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12059308\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251009-CORNMAZEBTS-08-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251009-CORNMAZEBTS-08-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251009-CORNMAZEBTS-08-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251009-CORNMAZEBTS-08-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The corn maze path at Andreotti Family Farms in Half Moon Bay on Oct. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Groverman’s maze takes around 45 minutes to complete, but if you’re worried about solving it, you can purchase a postcard featuring an aerial map to help you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so many times I go in to rescue people at the end of the night,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Look for clues in your surroundings\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andreotti’s, on the other hand, is full of dead ends, but should only take up to 25 minutes, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before entering the maze, he recommends you get a lay of the land first: Take note of any landmarks, “and use the sun,” he advised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12059307\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12059307\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251009-CORNMAZEBTS-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251009-CORNMAZEBTS-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251009-CORNMAZEBTS-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251009-CORNMAZEBTS-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sun shines through the leaves of a corn stalk in the corn maze at Andreotti Family Farms in Half Moon Bay on Oct. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Know how to get out if you really need to \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fantozzi’s mazes also come with a map, but that doesn’t mean people don’t still get turned around, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you get really lost and you just want to get out of the maze, you can walk between any two rows of corn and it’ll take you right to the side,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is an out if you really get completely lost,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"bay-area-corn-maze-near-me\">\u003c/a>Bay Area corn mazes (and pumpkin patches) to get you into the spooky season mood\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://petalumapumpkinpatch.com/\">\u003cstrong>Petaluma Pumpkin Patch and Amazing Corn Maze\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>, Petaluma\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Admission to Groverman’s corn maze is $9 during the day and $13 for the night maze. Kids under 5 years old enter for free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apart from their handmade corn maze, Groverman grows everything that is sold at the pumpkin patch, including pumpkins, gourds and squash. There’s even a giant corn box, filled with around 8,000 pounds of corn grain to play in like a sandbox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12059452\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12059452 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/PetalumaCornMaze2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/PetalumaCornMaze2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/PetalumaCornMaze2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/PetalumaCornMaze2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children enjoying pony rides at the Petaluma Pumpkin Patch and Amazing Corn Maze. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Petaluma Pumpkin Patch and Amazing Corn Maze)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You’ll also find food vendors, farm animals, a bounce house, a super slide and giant chair and — on the weekend — pony rides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The entire pumpkin patch is open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on weekdays and Sundays and until 10 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://andreottifamilyfarm.com/\">\u003cstrong>Andreotti Family Farm\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>, Half Moon Bay\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also known for its U-pick sunflower field, Andreotti’s pumpkin patch, hay rides and corn maze location opened on Oct. 4 this year after heavy rains delayed the opening. Andreotti’s team grows all their own crops, including edible and decorative pumpkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tickets to the corn maze can be purchased in advance and cost $12, plus a processing fee. Kids 3 and under enter for free. The hay ride is $7 plus a fee, and takes visitors on a tour of the property. The farm is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.webbranchinc.com/\">\u003cstrong>Webb Ranch\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>, Portola Valley\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This small quarter-acre corn maze is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and reservations are required on weekends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Webb Ranch also offers a bounce house open daily, in addition to a kids’ farm obstacle course and haunted house. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Frank Andreotti, farm manager at \u003ca href=\"https://andreottifamilyfarm.com/\">Andreotti Family Farm\u003c/a> in Half Moon Bay, takes a similar freehand approach — but with a little more power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all his corn has grown in, Andreotti constructs his 10-acre corn maze in just a few hours by plowing a 6-foot-wide path with a tractor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I’m driving through, I just have in my mind the outlay of the entire field,” he said. “It’s like freehand painting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Denise Fantozzi, on the other hand, is one farm owner who took the GPS route — and it’s paid off. Each year at Fantozzi Farms, located in the Central Valley, \u003ca href=\"https://fantozzifarms.com/corn-maze/\">she and her husband dream up a new design for the maze\u003c/a>, which is actually three mazes in one. The pair works with a company called Maze Play to input the design into a GPS and then, when the stalks are about 3 feet tall, they cut the maze exactly to the design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s theme is how food goes from the farm to the grocery store to the table, Fantozzi said. The smallest of the mazes is designed to be short and easy for school groups to complete, featuring animal tracks that kids can identify as they navigate the maze. The second-largest maze invites older children to play “Farm Scene Investigation,” a Clue-like game in which they can search for hidden pictures in the maze to identify which animals stole Farmer Joe’s pies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest of the mazes, for teens and adults, includes 12 hidden checkpoints and can take anywhere from 40 minutes to two hours to complete, Fantozzi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an intricate design every year,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Experttipsforsolvingacornmaze\">\u003c/a>What are some top tips for solving a corn maze?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Consider shelling out for the map\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groverman’s is a traditional maze, with one way in and one way out — and to complete it, you have to pass through each corner and climb two towers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You really have to cover the whole area,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12059308\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12059308\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251009-CORNMAZEBTS-08-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251009-CORNMAZEBTS-08-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251009-CORNMAZEBTS-08-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251009-CORNMAZEBTS-08-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The corn maze path at Andreotti Family Farms in Half Moon Bay on Oct. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Groverman’s maze takes around 45 minutes to complete, but if you’re worried about solving it, you can purchase a postcard featuring an aerial map to help you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so many times I go in to rescue people at the end of the night,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Look for clues in your surroundings\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andreotti’s, on the other hand, is full of dead ends, but should only take up to 25 minutes, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before entering the maze, he recommends you get a lay of the land first: Take note of any landmarks, “and use the sun,” he advised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12059307\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12059307\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251009-CORNMAZEBTS-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251009-CORNMAZEBTS-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251009-CORNMAZEBTS-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251009-CORNMAZEBTS-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sun shines through the leaves of a corn stalk in the corn maze at Andreotti Family Farms in Half Moon Bay on Oct. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Know how to get out if you really need to \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fantozzi’s mazes also come with a map, but that doesn’t mean people don’t still get turned around, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you get really lost and you just want to get out of the maze, you can walk between any two rows of corn and it’ll take you right to the side,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is an out if you really get completely lost,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"bay-area-corn-maze-near-me\">\u003c/a>Bay Area corn mazes (and pumpkin patches) to get you into the spooky season mood\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://petalumapumpkinpatch.com/\">\u003cstrong>Petaluma Pumpkin Patch and Amazing Corn Maze\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>, Petaluma\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Admission to Groverman’s corn maze is $9 during the day and $13 for the night maze. Kids under 5 years old enter for free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apart from their handmade corn maze, Groverman grows everything that is sold at the pumpkin patch, including pumpkins, gourds and squash. There’s even a giant corn box, filled with around 8,000 pounds of corn grain to play in like a sandbox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12059452\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12059452 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/PetalumaCornMaze2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/PetalumaCornMaze2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/PetalumaCornMaze2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/PetalumaCornMaze2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children enjoying pony rides at the Petaluma Pumpkin Patch and Amazing Corn Maze. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Petaluma Pumpkin Patch and Amazing Corn Maze)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You’ll also find food vendors, farm animals, a bounce house, a super slide and giant chair and — on the weekend — pony rides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The entire pumpkin patch is open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on weekdays and Sundays and until 10 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://andreottifamilyfarm.com/\">\u003cstrong>Andreotti Family Farm\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>, Half Moon Bay\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also known for its U-pick sunflower field, Andreotti’s pumpkin patch, hay rides and corn maze location opened on Oct. 4 this year after heavy rains delayed the opening. Andreotti’s team grows all their own crops, including edible and decorative pumpkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tickets to the corn maze can be purchased in advance and cost $12, plus a processing fee. Kids 3 and under enter for free. The hay ride is $7 plus a fee, and takes visitors on a tour of the property. The farm is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.webbranchinc.com/\">\u003cstrong>Webb Ranch\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>, Portola Valley\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This small quarter-acre corn maze is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and reservations are required on weekends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Webb Ranch also offers a bounce house open daily, in addition to a kids’ farm obstacle course and haunted house. 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During those visits, prosecutors say, she attached GPS devices to 12 different farm delivery vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 13, 2023, Rosenberg allegedly entered the farm without permission, took chickens off of a trailer and removed them from the property, according to the complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “rescue,” as Rosenberg called it, was caught on video by one of her Direct Action Everywhere colleagues and shared with KQED. The footage shows Rosenberg at night, dressed in protective gear, examining crates of chickens on a truck bed before placing four birds carefully into a red bucket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’d been loaded in there just like cargo,” she said. “They could barely stand. They could barely turn around. They were just packed in so tightly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055593\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Sonoma-Animal-Trial-04-KQED-e1757694537854.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055593\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Sonoma-Animal-Trial-04-KQED-e1757694537854.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1177\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshots from a video taken by a Direct Action member show the “rescue,” as Rosenberg called it. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Direct Action Everywhere)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The chickens — now named Poppy, Ivy, Aster and Azalea — were covered in scratches and bruises and now live at an undisclosed animal sanctuary, Rosenberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Months after the incident, police arrested Rosenberg on felony conspiracy and misdemeanor charges. She was taken into custody and later released on bail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At her release hearing, prosecutors argued she posed a threat to the public, and Rosenberg was ordered to wear a GPS ankle monitor, which she has worn since. She is also prohibited from possessing chickens, ducks or any other type of fowl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s definitely been overwhelming,” said Rosenberg, a UC Berkeley senior. “There’s been days where I’ve had to miss class to drive to Santa Rosa and spend all day in a courtroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Petaluma Poultry and its corporate owner, Perdue Farms, declined interview requests.[aside postID=news_12012012 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-19-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Rosenberg’s legal team will attempt to persuade a jury that the 2023 incident was a justified rescue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a whodunit, it’s really a whydunit,” said Chris Carraway, Rosenberg’s lawyer. “Zoe believed that this conduct was permissible under the circumstances.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not the first time Direct Action Everywhere cases have reached a Sonoma County courtroom. In 2023, co-founder \u003ca href=\"https://da.sonomacounty.ca.gov/man-sentenced-for-conspiracy-to-trespass-and-trespass-at-sonoma-county-farms\">Wayne Hsiung was sentenced\u003c/a> to two years of probation and 90 days in county jail after being convicted of felony conspiracy tied to farm protests in 2018 and 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Direct Action Everywhere is known for “\u003ca href=\"https://www.directactioneverywhere.com/open-rescue\">open rescues\u003c/a>,” in which activists enter farms where they believe animals are being abused and remove them. The group said it aims to expand laws that allow rescuing dogs from hot cars to include removing animals from farms where abuse is suspected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we welcome open and honest discussion about the welfare of animals, we strongly oppose the extreme tactics used by (Direct Action Everywhere),” Perdue Chief Human Resources Officer Julie Katigan said in a \u003ca href=\"https://corporate.perduefarms.com/news/press-releases/petaluma-poultry-takes-legal-action-to-protect-associate-safety-and-privacy-and-curb-aggressive-unlawful-harassment-from-animal-rights-extremist-group-1/\">statement\u003c/a>. “These are not the actions of an organization seeking constructive dialogue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ongoing prosecution is not about silencing speech—it is about holding accountable a pattern of calculated, unlawful activity,” added a Petaluma Poultry spokesperson in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The activist group was also behind Measure J, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012012/a-sonoma-county-ballot-measure-seeks-to-outlaw-big-animal-farms-farmers-say-it-would-be-devastating\">the controversial 2024 ballot measure\u003c/a> that sought to ban large animal farms in Sonoma County. Voters rejected it overwhelmingly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many farmers and ranchers in Sonoma County have called the group “extremist” and said its tactics are unlawful and dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055581\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-20-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055581\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-20-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-20-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-20-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-20-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Weber, farmer and co-owner of Weber Family Farms, poses for a photo at the farm in Petaluma on Oct. 28, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mike Weber, who co-owns a chicken farm in Petaluma targeted by Direct Action Everywhere in 2018, said activists’ actions go far beyond animal welfare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having to deal with a bunch of activists that are trying to break into your operation, are putting tracking devices on farm vehicles so they can see where the farm vehicles are — that goes beyond the line,” he said. “That has nothing to do with animal welfare. I’d like to see that come to an end.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she faces a trial that could last for several weeks and up to four-and-a-half years in prison, Rosenberg said the animals are helping her cope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I really put it into perspective, I know that there’s nothing that they have done to me or could possibly do to me that would ever compare to the level of suffering that animals endure every second of their lives,” she said. “That’s what keeps me going, even when things feel very overwhelming and scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Soyoung Scanlan is one of California’s most celebrated cheesemakers, but growing up in South Korea, she never imagined this career. In fact, cheese wasn’t even part of her early life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t eat cheese until I was like 18 or 19 because cheese was not available,” she said. “From the U.S. Army, we could get processed cheese, like Kraft singles. Yellow plastic-looking things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was born in Seoul in the late 1960s. Both her parents had experienced the Japanese occupation, the Korean War, and poverty. They connected over their shared love of classical music, Scanlan explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only place there were pianos was in the churches. So the way my father met my mom was he was playing Chopin, and my mom walked into the church, and they fell in love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up, Scanlan said that their house had no refrigeration, but it did have a garden and lots of music. Her father was her first piano teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I read music first,” she said. “I learned how to read music before I learned the alphabet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004840\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004840\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-49-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"An Asian woman sits playing a grand piano.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1362\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-49-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-49-KQED-800x545.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-49-KQED-1020x695.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-49-KQED-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-49-KQED-1536x1046.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-49-KQED-1920x1308.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soyoung Scanlan plays her piano at her home in San Francisco on Sept. 5, 2024. Music has always been a part of Scanlan’s life. She named her dairy, Andante Dairy, after a musical tempo. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Scanlan studied chemical engineering, got a graduate degree in biotechnology, and worked in a cancer research center. She came to the U.S. to get a Ph.D. in molecular biology. Her first week in Boston, she went to the symphony, and ended up sitting next to the man who would become her husband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple went on a trip to France, rented a farmhouse and took a fateful visit to a farmers market, where Scanlan met a cheesemonger who gave her a perfectly ripe piece of goat cheese from the hill town of \u003ca href=\"https://www.paxtonandwhitfield.co.uk/shop/buy-cheese-online/by-type/soft-cheese/rocamadour\">Rocamadour\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was almost melting on my hand, like ice cream,” Scanlan said with a kind of reverence. She remembers the near-liquid center almost oozing out of the delicate rind. She basically had to drink it out of her hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was the first goat milk cheese in my life,” she said, “and it had so much flavor. I said, ‘I need to go to the place where it was made because I think I can actually taste the rocks and the air and something very dry. I can taste it.’ ”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nThey spent a day driving to Rocamadour, where she said the rocks and the hills and the air did smell like that cheese she’d tasted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experience was an epiphany about the power of milk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scanlan said she read hundreds of books and articles about milk’s biophysical properties and about its history. In the late 1990s, now living in Northern California, she met other cheese obsessives and started making a cheese that used milk from both goats and cows. She found it fulfilled her scientifically curious mind more than life in a lab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But I had no clue if it was good or not,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004835\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004835\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two women pour milk from a pale into a large metal vat.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-13-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-13-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-13-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marcela Mejia (left) and Soyoung Scanlan pour goat milk into a cheese vat at Andante Dairy in Petaluma on Sept. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She took a few pieces to Napa’s Oakville Grocery, the North Bay’s go-to gourmet store of the time. People there shared it with folks who worked at the revered restaurant, The French Laundry. Scanlan was invited to prepare a tasting for chef Thomas Keller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a day she said she won’t forget. She remembers shaking when she entered the busy kitchen, asking for the famous chef.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the prep tables were full of salmon and lamb.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when the chef announced it was time for a cheese tasting, staff cleared the tables and put out a tablecloth and formal serving plates and utensils. Everyone in the kitchen removed their dirty work aprons, put chef’s jackets on, and held their breaths while Scanlan presented Thomas Keller with a tiny box holding only six pieces of cheese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"more California Foodways stories\" tag=\"california-foodways\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He tasted, smiled, and walked away from the table. Everyone else in the kitchen knew that meant he liked it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And they serve my cheese every day, ever since,” Scanlan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was only after that day that Scanlan named her company \u003ca href=\"https://www.andantedairy.com/\">Andante Dairy\u003c/a> and decided to give each cheese a musical name. She explains that sometimes, an aspect of the cheese makes her think of the musical inspiration for its name. Sometimes, she has music on her mind, and she decides to create a compatible cheese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of her first was Nocturne, a blue-gray, ash-covered, truncated pyramid inspired by Chopin’s composition, meant to be played at dusk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s Minuet, a triple-cream goat’s milk cheese, finished with a cow’s milk crème fraîche. Scanlan created it to be eaten while sipping champagne.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to do something pretty and elegant, like the dance, \u003ci>minuet\u003c/i>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her cheese called Piccolo is, appropriately, tiny. Even though Largo is made from the same curd, it’s four times the size and ages so long that it develops a deeper flavor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheesemaking is hard on the body, and Scanlan knows she can’t do this forever, but she still has cheeses she wants to make inspired by music. Like Rubato, the tempo mark for forgotten time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You are free from any directions. There is a melody, but you can do whatever you want, whatever speed,” she said. And that metaphor appeals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004838\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004838\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-29-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A hand shapes a block of cheese.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-29-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-29-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-29-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-29-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-29-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-29-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soyoung Scanlan wraps up Metronome cheese, named after a device that produces rhythms to help musicians play in time, at Andante Dairy in Petaluma on Sept. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She said she dreams of being able to just put aside the commercial time pressures of orders and budgets, forgetting time while she is making, and just helping the cheese become what it’s meant to be in its own time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the huge role music plays in Scanlan’s life, it’s kind of surprising that there is no music playing in the Andante Dairy workroom on the day of our visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have very, very sensitive hearing,” Scanlan said. “Sometimes, when it is a little too much, it interferes in my brain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the small workspace is quiet – no pumps, only the buzzing of a paddle spinning in a vat of milk. It’s sourced from the goats that graze on the rolling hills just out the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scanlan monitored the temperature carefully and added milk by hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m still fascinated by this whole process,” she said. “It’s like magic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Letting the milk in the vat agitate for a bit, Scanlan moved to a cheese press, where rounds of her newest cheese, Ballade, were squeezed overnight. She removed the 5-inch discs from their cheesecloth wrappers, flipped each round, and put them back in the mold for more, even pressing. She’ll finish the rind with pomegranate molasses inspired by the tree just outside the window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next, she turned to tall buckets filled with cow’s milk that she pasteurized the day before, for a slow curdling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scanlan is just over 5 feet tall. In her workroom, every waist-high bucket of milk is on wheels, and every work table is on casters so that the tiny cheesemaker can move them herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004843\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004843\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-59-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"An Asian woman sits at a grand piano next to a window.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-59-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-59-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-59-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-59-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-59-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-59-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soyoung Scanlan flips the pages of her piano books at her home in San Francisco on Sept. 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She scooped the slow-curdled Jersey cow’s milk into cheesecloth bags, nestled in a draining tray that looked like a trough, and it became clearer why Scanlan prefers a workspace with few distractions. Her sensitivities help her tune into the cheese. She said she feels the weight, the density of the curds when she scoops. She can smell the difference between goat and cow milk – she said if cow milk is cotton, goat milk would be Irish linen, a bit finer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, for someone with a highly trained ear, Scanlan pays attention to the sounds in the cheesemaking process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sound tells you so much. The sound of curd falling into the bag, it actually tells you how much is solid in the milk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scanlan said that when she’s working, the only music she needs is the constant drip of the whey draining out of cheesecloth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is my temple. Yep,” she said. “And I guess cheesemaking, it is my prayer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This story is part of the series \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://californiafoodways.com/\">\u003ci>California Foodways,\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> about food, agriculture, and the people that make both possible in each of California’s 58 counties.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nThey spent a day driving to Rocamadour, where she said the rocks and the hills and the air did smell like that cheese she’d tasted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experience was an epiphany about the power of milk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scanlan said she read hundreds of books and articles about milk’s biophysical properties and about its history. In the late 1990s, now living in Northern California, she met other cheese obsessives and started making a cheese that used milk from both goats and cows. She found it fulfilled her scientifically curious mind more than life in a lab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But I had no clue if it was good or not,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004835\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004835\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two women pour milk from a pale into a large metal vat.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-13-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-13-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-13-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marcela Mejia (left) and Soyoung Scanlan pour goat milk into a cheese vat at Andante Dairy in Petaluma on Sept. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She took a few pieces to Napa’s Oakville Grocery, the North Bay’s go-to gourmet store of the time. People there shared it with folks who worked at the revered restaurant, The French Laundry. Scanlan was invited to prepare a tasting for chef Thomas Keller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a day she said she won’t forget. She remembers shaking when she entered the busy kitchen, asking for the famous chef.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the prep tables were full of salmon and lamb.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when the chef announced it was time for a cheese tasting, staff cleared the tables and put out a tablecloth and formal serving plates and utensils. Everyone in the kitchen removed their dirty work aprons, put chef’s jackets on, and held their breaths while Scanlan presented Thomas Keller with a tiny box holding only six pieces of cheese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He tasted, smiled, and walked away from the table. Everyone else in the kitchen knew that meant he liked it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And they serve my cheese every day, ever since,” Scanlan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was only after that day that Scanlan named her company \u003ca href=\"https://www.andantedairy.com/\">Andante Dairy\u003c/a> and decided to give each cheese a musical name. She explains that sometimes, an aspect of the cheese makes her think of the musical inspiration for its name. Sometimes, she has music on her mind, and she decides to create a compatible cheese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of her first was Nocturne, a blue-gray, ash-covered, truncated pyramid inspired by Chopin’s composition, meant to be played at dusk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s Minuet, a triple-cream goat’s milk cheese, finished with a cow’s milk crème fraîche. Scanlan created it to be eaten while sipping champagne.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to do something pretty and elegant, like the dance, \u003ci>minuet\u003c/i>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her cheese called Piccolo is, appropriately, tiny. Even though Largo is made from the same curd, it’s four times the size and ages so long that it develops a deeper flavor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheesemaking is hard on the body, and Scanlan knows she can’t do this forever, but she still has cheeses she wants to make inspired by music. Like Rubato, the tempo mark for forgotten time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You are free from any directions. There is a melody, but you can do whatever you want, whatever speed,” she said. And that metaphor appeals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004838\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004838\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-29-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A hand shapes a block of cheese.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-29-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-29-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-29-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-29-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-29-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-29-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soyoung Scanlan wraps up Metronome cheese, named after a device that produces rhythms to help musicians play in time, at Andante Dairy in Petaluma on Sept. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She said she dreams of being able to just put aside the commercial time pressures of orders and budgets, forgetting time while she is making, and just helping the cheese become what it’s meant to be in its own time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the huge role music plays in Scanlan’s life, it’s kind of surprising that there is no music playing in the Andante Dairy workroom on the day of our visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have very, very sensitive hearing,” Scanlan said. “Sometimes, when it is a little too much, it interferes in my brain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the small workspace is quiet – no pumps, only the buzzing of a paddle spinning in a vat of milk. It’s sourced from the goats that graze on the rolling hills just out the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scanlan monitored the temperature carefully and added milk by hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m still fascinated by this whole process,” she said. “It’s like magic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Letting the milk in the vat agitate for a bit, Scanlan moved to a cheese press, where rounds of her newest cheese, Ballade, were squeezed overnight. She removed the 5-inch discs from their cheesecloth wrappers, flipped each round, and put them back in the mold for more, even pressing. She’ll finish the rind with pomegranate molasses inspired by the tree just outside the window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next, she turned to tall buckets filled with cow’s milk that she pasteurized the day before, for a slow curdling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scanlan is just over 5 feet tall. In her workroom, every waist-high bucket of milk is on wheels, and every work table is on casters so that the tiny cheesemaker can move them herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004843\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004843\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-59-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"An Asian woman sits at a grand piano next to a window.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-59-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-59-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-59-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-59-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-59-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-59-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soyoung Scanlan flips the pages of her piano books at her home in San Francisco on Sept. 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She scooped the slow-curdled Jersey cow’s milk into cheesecloth bags, nestled in a draining tray that looked like a trough, and it became clearer why Scanlan prefers a workspace with few distractions. Her sensitivities help her tune into the cheese. She said she feels the weight, the density of the curds when she scoops. She can smell the difference between goat and cow milk – she said if cow milk is cotton, goat milk would be Irish linen, a bit finer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, for someone with a highly trained ear, Scanlan pays attention to the sounds in the cheesemaking process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sound tells you so much. The sound of curd falling into the bag, it actually tells you how much is solid in the milk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scanlan said that when she’s working, the only music she needs is the constant drip of the whey draining out of cheesecloth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is my temple. 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"content": "\u003cp>More cases of avian flu were detected this week at three additional Sonoma County poultry operations near Petaluma, including one that houses nearly half a million birds, hitting the largest facility since the disease began ripping through this area late last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That brings the total number of sites here to seven, prompting the euthanization of more than 1 million birds, \u003ca href=\"https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/animalhealth/animal-disease-information/avian/avian-influenza/hpai-2022/2022-hpai-commercial-backyard-flocks\">according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture\u003c/a>, which tracks the outbreaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sonomafb.org/portfolio-items/avian-influenza/\">Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza\u003c/a> is typically spread from wild birds to farm-raised flocks through direct or indirect contact. The virus is often deadly to birds but is rarely transmitted to humans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Mattos, president of the California Poultry Federation, said the ongoing winter migration of wild birds has contributed to the transmission of the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t really got any reports from the state veterinarian other than the fact that they had hoped, like us, this wouldn’t have been so severe already,” Mattos said. “We’re just starting the winter months. It isn’t even halfway through.”[aside postID=\"news_11969913\" hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231214-AVIAN-FLU-GETTY-MT-KQED-1020x651.jpg']Sonoma County Supervisor David Rabbitt, who represents the district where all seven affected farms are located, said these outbreaks are financially and emotionally devastating to farmers who have to kill off and dispose of their entire flocks whenever the disease is detected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just tragic. No other way to put it. I mean, the consequences of one infection … you lose your entire flock,” said Rabbitt, who confirmed that Sunrise Farms owns the site of the biggest outbreak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adding to the financial burden, he said, farmers at affected sites must also wait 120 days or pay for environmental testing before repopulating their flocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest concern of the producers is losing their customers, losing their clients, the markets,” Rabbitt said. “Because the markets are gonna have eggs on the shelves, and if they don’t get them from the producers right around Petaluma, they’re gonna get them from someone else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rabbitt said the county has some resources to help struggling farmers but not nearly enough to cover the sizable damage already inflicted on the county’s $50 million poultry industry.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nHe added that two of the largest feed distributors in this rural area about 40 miles north of San Francisco have also lost roughly 60% of their business now that so many farms have been emptied and the demand for feed has plummeted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The avian flu has been reported among farm-raised flocks at five other counties throughout the state in recent months, but only Merced County has seen a higher number of affected birds. Last week, farmers in a single facility in that county had to euthanize more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/animalhealth/animal-disease-information/avian/avian-influenza/hpai-2022/2022-hpai-commercial-backyard-flocks\">1.3 million birds\u003c/a> after the virus was detected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agriculture officials are also investigating a suspected outbreak at another Central Valley facility that houses more than 1 million egg-laying birds, according to Mattos of the California Poultry Federation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a lot of birds, it’s terrible,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#correction\">This story contains a correction.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Brown has called Littlewoods Mobile Villa home for 27 years. His favorite parts about the Great Lakes single-wide mobile home are that it was designed to last, made of durable materials like steel – and that he owns it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what Brown and the other residents at Littlewoods don’t own is the land underneath their homes. Tenants pay to rent space in the 78-unit park. For Brown, that’s about $600 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Margaret DeMatteo, housing policy attorney, Legal Aid of Sonoma County\"]‘When you have a corporation running a park, their number one interest is profit, and that’s going to cause problems for the residents.’[/pullquote]Affordability has kept many tenants of Littlewoods feeling secure. However, after Brown received a potential closure letter from the park’s owners in July, a month after Petaluma’s city council began discussing whether to adopt \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/petalumas-mobile-home-reform-fight-is-about-a-lot-more-than-rent-control/\">rent control\u003c/a>, that sense of stability was shaken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went to my room, I sat down, I read [the letter] and I read it again. I was just blown away,” said Brown. “I read it a third time. My mind wasn’t wrapping around it. In that moment, I just felt broken.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter specifically mentioned that property owners are unsure if they can continue running the park with measures taken by local and state governments. Littlewoods Villa is owned by the Ubaldi Family, which also owns Carriage Court in Santa Rosa. The park is managed by Harmony Communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown is a former delivery truck driver who spent most of his life transporting grapes from Sonoma County wineries, until a bad back injury a few years ago. Now he’s on disability and relies on a fixed income. The rent at the park has allowed him to stay at Littlewoods Villa, in the two-bedroom, metallic mobile home he shares with his roommate Donna Dillard and their two little dogs, Sergei and Becky Woo Woo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11959849\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68497_20230829-Littlewoods-25-JY-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11959849\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68497_20230829-Littlewoods-25-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A person in a baseball cap stands in front of a mobile home looking into the camera.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68497_20230829-Littlewoods-25-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68497_20230829-Littlewoods-25-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68497_20230829-Littlewoods-25-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68497_20230829-Littlewoods-25-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68497_20230829-Littlewoods-25-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68497_20230829-Littlewoods-25-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christopher Brown poses for a portrait in front of his mobile home at Littlewoods Mobile Villa in Petaluma, Sonoma County, on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023. Brown has lived at Littlewoods for 27 years and along with many others is faced with eviction after the management company threatened to shut the park down due to Petaluma’s new rent stabilization rules. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tenants of Littlewoods Villa in Petaluma remain in limbo. The fate of the place they call home has been put in jeopardy by the potential closure notice, a move they say is retaliatory after Petaluma \u003ca href=\"https://cityofpetaluma.org/mobilehomes/\">adopted stronger rent control laws surrounding mobile home parks\u003c/a> on July 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown and other park residents are now worried that if the owners decide to close Littlewoods Villa, they could be left homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In light of potentially losing their housing, residents decided to take action and began organizing under the name Neighbors United.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We talk about how we’re going to get the word out into the community, how we’re going to continue to organize our get-togethers, our meetings, and what actions we’re going to take,” said Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The last beacon of affordable home ownership\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mobile home parks are often the last affordable housing options for home ownership, especially for tenants who are older, lower-income or live on a fixed income, like social security or disability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high cost of housing, especially in an increasingly expensive Bay Area, has trickled down to mobile home communities. In 2018, the average home price in Petaluma was a little under $700,000. This year, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.redfin.com/city/14699/CA/Petaluma/housing-market#trends\">median home price\u003c/a> is $935,000. Meanwhile, corporate owners have eyed mobile home parks as \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/27/us/mobile-home-park-ownership-costs.html\">lucrative investments\u003c/a>, driving up rents for tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11959843\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68511_20230829-Littlewoods-42-JY-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11959843\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68511_20230829-Littlewoods-42-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Adults and children are seen on a street running between rows of mobile homes.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68511_20230829-Littlewoods-42-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68511_20230829-Littlewoods-42-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68511_20230829-Littlewoods-42-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68511_20230829-Littlewoods-42-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68511_20230829-Littlewoods-42-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68511_20230829-Littlewoods-42-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents walk through the streets of Littlewoods Mobile Villa in Petaluma on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When you have a corporation running a park, their number one interest is profit, and that’s going to cause problems for the residents,” said Margaret DeMatteo, a housing policy attorney for Legal Aid of Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has concerns about the national trend of corporation management companies buying mobile home parks to increase profit. DeMatteo pushed for expanding tenant protections to include mobile park homes by advocating for tenants at city council, and participating in tenant rights workshops to help educate residents on their protections under state and local law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://mobilehomes.senate.ca.gov/sites/mobilehomes.senate.ca.gov/files/2023_mrl_1479-s_5.4.23_updated_pdf_proof.pdf\">California’s 2023 Mobile Home Residency Law (PDF)\u003c/a>, rent control regulations are left up to each city to decide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeMatteo said the new rent control rules are similar to ones adopted in nearby Santa Rosa, Windsor, and Rohnert Park, but Petaluma was the first place she saw owners threaten to close their parks in response. Since then, owners of parks in Petaluma and Cloverdale have taken similar actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are a way to strong-arm homeowners into paying a rent increase of up to 150%,” Dematteo said. “If you want us to stay open, you have to voluntarily pay more space rent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Residents fight for their park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The news of potential closure disrupted what would have been a normal summer of barbeques at Haley Gonzalez’s grandparents’ mobile home. The 11-year-old attends Miwok Valley Elementary, which conveniently shares a chain link fence with the park. Her entire family lives at Littlewoods and relocation for a mobile home is expensive. It can cost \u003ca href=\"https://www.moving.com/tips/moving-mobile-home-expect-pay/#:~:text=To%20move%20a%20single%2Dwide,will%20cost%20%244%2C000%2D%2410%2C000.\">anywhere from $3,000 to $14,000\u003c/a> depending on the mobile home’s size and the destination distance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her mother Claudia Gonzalez have been attending tenant meetings since they got the notice. Usually around 80 people show up, sometimes over 100.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just want to fight for my park,” said Haley. “My friends and family live here, and I just want to be with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin Contreras has also lived at the park his whole life and after graduating from Sonoma State earlier this year, he began teaching band class for fifth and sixth graders at Miwok Elementary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11947567,news_11927278,news_11945257\" label=\"Related Stories\"]Contreras has also been a key leader in organizing tenants. After an initial meeting with park management, he and a few others realized they were stronger together. They reached out to a local advocacy group, North Bay Organizing Project, and started attending city council meetings. During public testimony, they shared their experiences and met other tenants in similar situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re all coming together collectively and sharing our passion, and spreading positivity, but it is a stressful time to be in for everyone,” Contreras said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contreras is also bilingual, and has made it a point to advocate for the monolingual Spanish speakers in Littlewoods, who make up around 80% of residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a meeting to negotiate potential rent increases as a way to keep the park operational, Contreras said the management team neglected to bring a translator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Myself and one of my peers who have been stepping up to lead this asked if we could interpret, and they were defensive about it. But ultimately they let us,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cityofpetaluma.org/documents/final-chapter-6-50-mobilehome-park-space-rent-stabilization-program/\">The ordinance\u003c/a>, which went into effect on Aug.17, prevents property owners from increasing rent by more than 4% annually, or 70% of the Consumer Price Index, whichever is lower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Karen Nau, whose district includes the Littlewoods park, was part of the unanimous vote to amend the rent ordinance. But Nau also recognized the potential harm for property owners who say they’re unable to raise rents to meet inflation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Listening to park owners, I understand. The management company said that Petaluma raised their water rates,” said Nau. “That’s because of the cost of living, and you can use less water, but you can’t raise the rent of the current residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nau said that allowing property managers to increase rent for new residents could be a happy medium, but in order to do that, the ordinance would need to be amended by the city council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, Littlewoods Villa owner Nick Ubaldi explained why the rent control limits affect his family’s business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Considering basic economic principles, if revenue is capped at 70% while costs increase by 100% or more, it becomes unsustainable for a business to continue operating long-term. The changes that have been made to the ordinance do not provide any safety valve for operators. We would rather voluntarily go out of business now rather than be forced into a bankruptcy down the road.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Neighbors united are stronger together\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Aug. 29, tenants of Littlewoods Villa gathered to speak out against the possible closure. 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Muñoz and her children reside at the mobile home park, and are being threatened with eviction by management due to Petaluma’s new rent stabilization rules. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among the residents who shared their stories was Liliana Muñoz. She grew emotional, choking back tears, as she imagined where her family would go, if they were forced to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My duty as a single mother is to give my children a home. Without my home I would not be doing my duty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the closure goes forward, Muñoz would have to sell her car to afford relocation costs. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Affordability has kept many tenants of Littlewoods feeling secure. However, after Brown received a potential closure letter from the park’s owners in July, a month after Petaluma’s city council began discussing whether to adopt \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/petalumas-mobile-home-reform-fight-is-about-a-lot-more-than-rent-control/\">rent control\u003c/a>, that sense of stability was shaken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went to my room, I sat down, I read [the letter] and I read it again. I was just blown away,” said Brown. “I read it a third time. My mind wasn’t wrapping around it. In that moment, I just felt broken.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter specifically mentioned that property owners are unsure if they can continue running the park with measures taken by local and state governments. Littlewoods Villa is owned by the Ubaldi Family, which also owns Carriage Court in Santa Rosa. The park is managed by Harmony Communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown is a former delivery truck driver who spent most of his life transporting grapes from Sonoma County wineries, until a bad back injury a few years ago. Now he’s on disability and relies on a fixed income. The rent at the park has allowed him to stay at Littlewoods Villa, in the two-bedroom, metallic mobile home he shares with his roommate Donna Dillard and their two little dogs, Sergei and Becky Woo Woo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11959849\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68497_20230829-Littlewoods-25-JY-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11959849\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68497_20230829-Littlewoods-25-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A person in a baseball cap stands in front of a mobile home looking into the camera.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68497_20230829-Littlewoods-25-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68497_20230829-Littlewoods-25-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68497_20230829-Littlewoods-25-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68497_20230829-Littlewoods-25-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68497_20230829-Littlewoods-25-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68497_20230829-Littlewoods-25-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christopher Brown poses for a portrait in front of his mobile home at Littlewoods Mobile Villa in Petaluma, Sonoma County, on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023. Brown has lived at Littlewoods for 27 years and along with many others is faced with eviction after the management company threatened to shut the park down due to Petaluma’s new rent stabilization rules. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tenants of Littlewoods Villa in Petaluma remain in limbo. The fate of the place they call home has been put in jeopardy by the potential closure notice, a move they say is retaliatory after Petaluma \u003ca href=\"https://cityofpetaluma.org/mobilehomes/\">adopted stronger rent control laws surrounding mobile home parks\u003c/a> on July 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown and other park residents are now worried that if the owners decide to close Littlewoods Villa, they could be left homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In light of potentially losing their housing, residents decided to take action and began organizing under the name Neighbors United.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We talk about how we’re going to get the word out into the community, how we’re going to continue to organize our get-togethers, our meetings, and what actions we’re going to take,” said Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The last beacon of affordable home ownership\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mobile home parks are often the last affordable housing options for home ownership, especially for tenants who are older, lower-income or live on a fixed income, like social security or disability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high cost of housing, especially in an increasingly expensive Bay Area, has trickled down to mobile home communities. In 2018, the average home price in Petaluma was a little under $700,000. This year, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.redfin.com/city/14699/CA/Petaluma/housing-market#trends\">median home price\u003c/a> is $935,000. Meanwhile, corporate owners have eyed mobile home parks as \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/27/us/mobile-home-park-ownership-costs.html\">lucrative investments\u003c/a>, driving up rents for tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11959843\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68511_20230829-Littlewoods-42-JY-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11959843\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68511_20230829-Littlewoods-42-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Adults and children are seen on a street running between rows of mobile homes.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68511_20230829-Littlewoods-42-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68511_20230829-Littlewoods-42-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68511_20230829-Littlewoods-42-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68511_20230829-Littlewoods-42-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68511_20230829-Littlewoods-42-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68511_20230829-Littlewoods-42-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents walk through the streets of Littlewoods Mobile Villa in Petaluma on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When you have a corporation running a park, their number one interest is profit, and that’s going to cause problems for the residents,” said Margaret DeMatteo, a housing policy attorney for Legal Aid of Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has concerns about the national trend of corporation management companies buying mobile home parks to increase profit. DeMatteo pushed for expanding tenant protections to include mobile park homes by advocating for tenants at city council, and participating in tenant rights workshops to help educate residents on their protections under state and local law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://mobilehomes.senate.ca.gov/sites/mobilehomes.senate.ca.gov/files/2023_mrl_1479-s_5.4.23_updated_pdf_proof.pdf\">California’s 2023 Mobile Home Residency Law (PDF)\u003c/a>, rent control regulations are left up to each city to decide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeMatteo said the new rent control rules are similar to ones adopted in nearby Santa Rosa, Windsor, and Rohnert Park, but Petaluma was the first place she saw owners threaten to close their parks in response. Since then, owners of parks in Petaluma and Cloverdale have taken similar actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are a way to strong-arm homeowners into paying a rent increase of up to 150%,” Dematteo said. “If you want us to stay open, you have to voluntarily pay more space rent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Residents fight for their park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The news of potential closure disrupted what would have been a normal summer of barbeques at Haley Gonzalez’s grandparents’ mobile home. The 11-year-old attends Miwok Valley Elementary, which conveniently shares a chain link fence with the park. Her entire family lives at Littlewoods and relocation for a mobile home is expensive. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Contreras has also been a key leader in organizing tenants. After an initial meeting with park management, he and a few others realized they were stronger together. They reached out to a local advocacy group, North Bay Organizing Project, and started attending city council meetings. During public testimony, they shared their experiences and met other tenants in similar situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re all coming together collectively and sharing our passion, and spreading positivity, but it is a stressful time to be in for everyone,” Contreras said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contreras is also bilingual, and has made it a point to advocate for the monolingual Spanish speakers in Littlewoods, who make up around 80% of residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a meeting to negotiate potential rent increases as a way to keep the park operational, Contreras said the management team neglected to bring a translator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Myself and one of my peers who have been stepping up to lead this asked if we could interpret, and they were defensive about it. But ultimately they let us,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cityofpetaluma.org/documents/final-chapter-6-50-mobilehome-park-space-rent-stabilization-program/\">The ordinance\u003c/a>, which went into effect on Aug.17, prevents property owners from increasing rent by more than 4% annually, or 70% of the Consumer Price Index, whichever is lower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Karen Nau, whose district includes the Littlewoods park, was part of the unanimous vote to amend the rent ordinance. But Nau also recognized the potential harm for property owners who say they’re unable to raise rents to meet inflation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thephoenixtheater.com/\">The Phoenix Theater\u003c/a> sits on a corner in quaint downtown Petaluma. It’s a place steeped in history, though you might not guess that from its unassuming, gray exterior. The building dates back to 1904, when it opened as the Hill Opera House. In the early part of the 20th century, the theater hosted opera star Enrico Caruso and magician Harry Houdini before it transitioned into an ornate movie house in the 1930s. Today, 100 years later, it hosts shows every weekend — with help from Petaluma’s teenagers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 1983, the Phoenix Theater — also known as the Petaluma Phoenix Center — has operated as an all-ages venue, earning a reputation for hosting raucous punk, metal and hip-hop shows, as well as the occasional WWE-style wrestling match. Its transformation included trading the seats of its grand auditorium for skate ramps, and allowing graffiti to cover nearly every inch of the building. It has the air of an anarchic, punked out fun house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I visited on a Friday afternoon, teens were everywhere: skateboarding in the auditorium, sharing secrets in empty corners and rehearsing in back rooms. One had his bike flipped upside down in the lobby while he stared intently at the gears. No one seemed fazed by this eclectic collage of activity. It’s just a regular day at the Phoenix Theater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953930\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/rs63227_02242023_phoenixtheater-666-kqed/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11953930\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63227_02242023_phoenixtheater-666-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd of young people mill about talking and laughing set back a ways from a stage covered in neon lights.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63227_02242023_phoenixtheater-666-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63227_02242023_phoenixtheater-666-KQED-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63227_02242023_phoenixtheater-666-KQED-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63227_02242023_phoenixtheater-666-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63227_02242023_phoenixtheater-666-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63227_02242023_phoenixtheater-666-KQED-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Audience members talk and laugh during a show. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a few hours, teen volunteers will sell tickets to this evening’s show of teen bands, where a teenage sound engineer will monitor the mix. It’s hard to find an adult around, but there is one very important one at the center of it all: Tom Gaffey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gaffey is the general manager, a job he’s held for 40 years. Born and raised in Petaluma, he first worked here when it still showed movies. He came back in 1983, as the theater was struggling to survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I found was that the kids were using it for the damnedest projects. Their bands were coming in, rehearsing on the stage when they could, and the kids were kind of skating all over the building,” he said. “It turned out that the only people that were really using it and really showing any love were the younger generation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953932\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/rs63232_02242023_phoenixtheater-752-kqed/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11953932\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63232_02242023_phoenixtheater-752-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A partly bald man with a white beard stands on a darkened sidewalk and looks at the camera.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63232_02242023_phoenixtheater-752-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63232_02242023_phoenixtheater-752-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63232_02242023_phoenixtheater-752-KQED-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63232_02242023_phoenixtheater-752-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63232_02242023_phoenixtheater-752-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63232_02242023_phoenixtheater-752-KQED-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phoenix Theater manager Tom Gaffey helped revitalize the spot as a place for teens in the community. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gaffey took over the lease and almost immediately a music promoter offered him $1,000 to bring in the Wisconsin folk-punk band the Violent Femmes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People were jumping off the stage and flying through the air and trying to beat up my staff. Oh my god. It was most incredible,” Gaffey said, with a laugh. “That night I was paid the entire month’s rent. The show sold out, and that’s when I realized this is going to be a rock and roll house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The momentum of that inaugural show led to Gaffey booking bands like Green Day, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11610342/sublimes-last-show-20-years-later-the-oral-history\">Sublime\u003c/a> and Metallica. He also embraced hip-hop, booking Snoop Dogg and the Bay’s own Mac Dre and E-40, among many others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gaffey almost exclusively hires local teens to keep the building afloat, like the sound technician and ticket sellers, giving Petaluma youth not just a space to hang out but also a source of income. Some have even found careers working at the Phoenix. Gaffey says one of his old sound techs is now touring with John Mayer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953927\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/rs63208_02242023_phoenixtheater-146-kqed/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11953927\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63208_02242023_phoenixtheater-146-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Every inch of the wall outside the men's room is covered with graffiti. As is the door to the men's room, which stands ajar, and so is the wall inside.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63208_02242023_phoenixtheater-146-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63208_02242023_phoenixtheater-146-KQED-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63208_02242023_phoenixtheater-146-KQED-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63208_02242023_phoenixtheater-146-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63208_02242023_phoenixtheater-146-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63208_02242023_phoenixtheater-146-KQED-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graffiti covers the outside of the men’s bathroom at the Phoenix — an eclectic style the community has embraced. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The theater’s long history has meant that some Petaluma parents grew up at the Phoenix, too. For 15-year-old Theo Landskron’s family, the connection runs deep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve come here every day after school to have an escape from everything else. My mom grew up in Sonoma County and she came to the Phoenix when she was in high school, [so] when she found out I was coming, she was really excited,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two decades ago, a Phoenix parent also saved the theater from shutting down. Back in 1983, when Gaffey took over the lease, the building was for sale. It finally found a buyer in 2000. The Phoenix even had a final show to say goodbye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A developer was going to turn it into an office building,” Gaffey said. “What happened is the father of two kids that grew up here in the ’80s came to me a week before escrow closed and said, ‘I’d like to help.’ He had just sold his company to Cisco Systems for a good amount of money, so he and his partner said, ‘We’re going to buy this place for you guys and give it back to you as a nonprofit.’ Which is exactly what they did, and it was all because the kids like this building.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953929\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/rs63222_02242023_phoenixtheater-405-kqed/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11953929\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63222_02242023_phoenixtheater-405-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A young person plays a guitar while singing into a microphone alongside accompanying musicians playing the drums and the bass guitar under neon red and blue lights.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63222_02242023_phoenixtheater-405-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63222_02242023_phoenixtheater-405-KQED-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63222_02242023_phoenixtheater-405-KQED-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63222_02242023_phoenixtheater-405-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63222_02242023_phoenixtheater-405-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63222_02242023_phoenixtheater-405-KQED-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Owen McCannell, 19, performs during a show at the Phoenix. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Riley Taylor Drake’s band, Wild Metanoia, was one of four bands on the night’s bill when I visited. He said that the Phoenix has been critical in the band’s progress. “How quick we got to playing here was always so cool to me, cause this was our target venue to hit by the start of this year, and we’ve played here five times now. I love it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, Gaffey is back at the Phoenix. In the middle of cleaning up, a memory comes to him from his own teen years. “I remember maybe in ninth grade, I was standing on the apron of the stage and I said, ‘God, I want to come back and run this place.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t even have envisioned something like this,” he added. “However, we’re having a damn good time, so ‘Thank you, God.’ I gotta remember to do that every day.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nThe Phoenix Theater in Petaluma is open every day at 3 p.m., with all-ages shows every Friday and Saturday night.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thephoenixtheater.com/\">The Phoenix Theater\u003c/a> sits on a corner in quaint downtown Petaluma. It’s a place steeped in history, though you might not guess that from its unassuming, gray exterior. The building dates back to 1904, when it opened as the Hill Opera House. In the early part of the 20th century, the theater hosted opera star Enrico Caruso and magician Harry Houdini before it transitioned into an ornate movie house in the 1930s. Today, 100 years later, it hosts shows every weekend — with help from Petaluma’s teenagers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 1983, the Phoenix Theater — also known as the Petaluma Phoenix Center — has operated as an all-ages venue, earning a reputation for hosting raucous punk, metal and hip-hop shows, as well as the occasional WWE-style wrestling match. Its transformation included trading the seats of its grand auditorium for skate ramps, and allowing graffiti to cover nearly every inch of the building. It has the air of an anarchic, punked out fun house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I visited on a Friday afternoon, teens were everywhere: skateboarding in the auditorium, sharing secrets in empty corners and rehearsing in back rooms. One had his bike flipped upside down in the lobby while he stared intently at the gears. No one seemed fazed by this eclectic collage of activity. It’s just a regular day at the Phoenix Theater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953930\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/rs63227_02242023_phoenixtheater-666-kqed/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11953930\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63227_02242023_phoenixtheater-666-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd of young people mill about talking and laughing set back a ways from a stage covered in neon lights.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63227_02242023_phoenixtheater-666-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63227_02242023_phoenixtheater-666-KQED-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63227_02242023_phoenixtheater-666-KQED-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63227_02242023_phoenixtheater-666-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63227_02242023_phoenixtheater-666-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63227_02242023_phoenixtheater-666-KQED-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Audience members talk and laugh during a show. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a few hours, teen volunteers will sell tickets to this evening’s show of teen bands, where a teenage sound engineer will monitor the mix. It’s hard to find an adult around, but there is one very important one at the center of it all: Tom Gaffey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gaffey is the general manager, a job he’s held for 40 years. Born and raised in Petaluma, he first worked here when it still showed movies. He came back in 1983, as the theater was struggling to survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I found was that the kids were using it for the damnedest projects. Their bands were coming in, rehearsing on the stage when they could, and the kids were kind of skating all over the building,” he said. “It turned out that the only people that were really using it and really showing any love were the younger generation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953932\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/rs63232_02242023_phoenixtheater-752-kqed/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11953932\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63232_02242023_phoenixtheater-752-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A partly bald man with a white beard stands on a darkened sidewalk and looks at the camera.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63232_02242023_phoenixtheater-752-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63232_02242023_phoenixtheater-752-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63232_02242023_phoenixtheater-752-KQED-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63232_02242023_phoenixtheater-752-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63232_02242023_phoenixtheater-752-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63232_02242023_phoenixtheater-752-KQED-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phoenix Theater manager Tom Gaffey helped revitalize the spot as a place for teens in the community. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gaffey took over the lease and almost immediately a music promoter offered him $1,000 to bring in the Wisconsin folk-punk band the Violent Femmes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People were jumping off the stage and flying through the air and trying to beat up my staff. Oh my god. It was most incredible,” Gaffey said, with a laugh. “That night I was paid the entire month’s rent. The show sold out, and that’s when I realized this is going to be a rock and roll house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The momentum of that inaugural show led to Gaffey booking bands like Green Day, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11610342/sublimes-last-show-20-years-later-the-oral-history\">Sublime\u003c/a> and Metallica. He also embraced hip-hop, booking Snoop Dogg and the Bay’s own Mac Dre and E-40, among many others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gaffey almost exclusively hires local teens to keep the building afloat, like the sound technician and ticket sellers, giving Petaluma youth not just a space to hang out but also a source of income. Some have even found careers working at the Phoenix. Gaffey says one of his old sound techs is now touring with John Mayer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953927\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/rs63208_02242023_phoenixtheater-146-kqed/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11953927\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63208_02242023_phoenixtheater-146-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Every inch of the wall outside the men's room is covered with graffiti. As is the door to the men's room, which stands ajar, and so is the wall inside.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63208_02242023_phoenixtheater-146-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63208_02242023_phoenixtheater-146-KQED-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63208_02242023_phoenixtheater-146-KQED-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63208_02242023_phoenixtheater-146-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63208_02242023_phoenixtheater-146-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS63208_02242023_phoenixtheater-146-KQED-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graffiti covers the outside of the men’s bathroom at the Phoenix — an eclectic style the community has embraced. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The theater’s long history has meant that some Petaluma parents grew up at the Phoenix, too. For 15-year-old Theo Landskron’s family, the connection runs deep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve come here every day after school to have an escape from everything else. My mom grew up in Sonoma County and she came to the Phoenix when she was in high school, [so] when she found out I was coming, she was really excited,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two decades ago, a Phoenix parent also saved the theater from shutting down. Back in 1983, when Gaffey took over the lease, the building was for sale. It finally found a buyer in 2000. 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