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Kara Brewer: I was specifically told that I could not bring up any farming aspect at all for the SUP 1 application process. It had to be completely two separate things. 2 3 Barry Katz: You have an apiary and you have all these wild flowers and everything. Do you have any 4 particular special liability insurance and materials on hand to deal with the people who are allergic to 5 stings? 6 7 Kara Brewer: Yes, we do have comprehensive farm insurance that covers all of our activities and yes we 8 will have a medical kit there. And of course we’ll be giving warnings too. 9 10 Karen Barrows: Correct me if I’m wrong but I thought I heard you say earlier that when you were looking 11 around for property you were looking around for property that would meet criteria that would allow you to do 12 this wedding venue? 13 14 Kara Brewer: And some of the farming aspect as well. The flowers and the trees, again we hadn’t select the 15 chestnut trees yet but we knew we need large enough acreage to accommodate all that if I just wanted to 16 do weddings. I would have saved a lot money and bought the 2 acre property. 17 18 Matt Hughes: Where were you referring to where you checked the wrong X? 19 20 Kara Brewer: There’s so much paperwork. I think there’s one particular section where it says assembly and 21 I just checked it. 22 23 Matt Hughes: And I was just wondering, who helped you fill out the forms? 24 25 Kara Brewer: County staff. They would help me and talk me through it. I had never done it before. 26 27 Susan Halkiotis: I have another question. So going back, I think that it’s admirable to do things and pursue 28 things that your children can be involved in and you mentioned that starting a farm would allow you time 29 with them outdoors, and this was something they could participate in. But you don’t live on the farm. I 30 mean, most of the time people do live on their farms so that they can… 31 32 Kara Brewer: We live in Chapel Hill; we’re very close by. And that’s part of it. And we’ll be there as much as 33 possible and I’ll be there after I drop the kids off at school, and go to the farm property and work as long as 34 I can and pick them back up. So we’ll figure it out. I live about 15-20 minutes away. 35 36 Andy Petesch: And what part of the barn designed to include a comfortable office space to work since you 37 were going to basing a lot of time there? 38 39 Kara Brewer: Yes and it has space for the kids to do homework and things like that as well so it does give 40 them an area to be off the farm if they needed to. 41 42 Barry Katz: Well your kids are about to enter into organized sports, and other social events and I think it 43 seems inconceivable that they’re going to spend much time out there. So you have down here 10 staff 44 during events and when there are no events the number of staff is 5? 45 46 Kara Brewer: Approximately, it depends on what we have going on? 47 48 47