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Matt Hughes: I have a few questions. Not relating to your business plan per se and your numbers. But 1 section 1,2,3, etcetera list what you plan to do on your farm. Is that in order? So do you plan being on 2 mostly for chestnuts, and then flowers, and then honey production and then event stuff. 3 4 Kara Brewer: That’s correct. 5 6 Matt Hughes: Ok. And so how do you think as maybe a percentage of your farms operation would be 7 hosting events and having others on your property? Like field trips and things like that? 8 9 Kara Brewer: Sure. So I did write that out. That would be section 4. Page 6. 10 11 Andy Petesch: This is still under tab 16, page 6. 12 13 Kara Brewer: So for example, right now for 2017 we’re looking at 15 Saturday farm weddings and 22 for 14 2018. And then for floral workshops for 2017 I’m just doing the grouping in the fall so we’ll have three 15 different workshops and we’ll do three different dates for those. I’m going to cap it at about 30-40 people 16 per workshop and then for the educational programs we are opening that up to elementary aged kids. And 17 so I’m hoping in 2017 to have roughly 5-6 per months at certain times of the year. But again, we’re working 18 all that out. This is just planning. But that’s what I would like to do. 19 20 Matt Hughes: And the comments we have from the folks that are appealing the decision of staff. Most of the 21 comments that I heard involved nighttime activities, which I would assume, would be weddings. So in 2017 22 you’re saying you’re projecting 15 just based on market analysis just based of 22 for the next year? Do you 23 plan on capping the number of weddings that you have? 24 25 Kara Brewer: Yes, and as a matter of a fact, we can do only so many weddings on a Saturday. So we could 26 only at most have 4-5 weddings on a Saturday per month for wedding season, which runs from May to 27 October, roughly. Now there are occasions when there might be a Friday or a Sunday wedding, that’s 28 typically much less and again I would cap it and maybe 5 or 6 times a year. And that’s primarily just the 29 holidays. 30 31 Matt Hughes: So you’re anticipating that most of the weddings would occur during a particular time of year. 32 33 Kara Brewer: Yes, there is a very specific wedding season. It runs from May to October. And even for me 34 that presents difficulty because a popular time for weddings is September and October and that’s when 35 we’re busy with the chestnut harvesting. So I might not be able to do as many in September and October, 36 which would leave mainly summer, and maybe a few early spring. 37 38 Matt Hughes: I think that’s all I have. 39 40 Andy Petesch: Mr. Hughes asked a question a little while ago and, just to clarify, he was asking about the 41 order in which you are implementing the different aspects of the farm and the order in which these are 42 presented. You already have chestnuts growing on the farm, is that correct? 43 44 Kara Brewer: That is correct. 45 46 Andy Petesch: And how many trees are currently on the Morrow Mill property? 47 48 44