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1 <br />Barry Katz: Right. And how many blocks per square foot? 2 <br /> 3 <br />Kara Brewer: It depends on the type of flower and the spacing that I have to do. It could be, let’s say 5. 4 <br /> 5 <br />Barry Katz: Ok, so that’s 1,400 per bed. And how many beds do you have? 6 <br /> 7 <br />Kara Brewer: We’re going to do at least 22 to start… 8 <br /> 9 <br />Barry Katz: 22 beds? 10 <br /> 11 <br />Kara Brewer: Yes. 12 <br /> 13 <br />Barry Katz: So you’re into about 20,000 or more blocks? 14 <br /> 15 <br />Kara Brewer: Yes. And that’s not all at once. You do it succession so that you have blooms year round. 16 <br /> 17 <br />Barry Katz: Excuse me but, I assume that different beds… So you’re only planning on using certain beds to 18 <br />grow certain flowers and then they’re fallow the rest of the year. You’re not going to plant them over again 19 <br />and put in anything else? 20 <br /> 21 <br />Kara Brewer: Correct, not right now. Getting started imp just going to see how everything works and on 22 <br />seasonal. 23 <br /> 24 <br />Barry Katz: Managing 20,000 blocks is a massive undertaking. 25 <br /> 26 <br />Kara Brewer: It is, yes. 27 <br /> 28 <br />Andy Petesch: And so will you hire people and employ them in the area to work on the farm? 29 <br /> 30 <br />Kara Brewer: Yes. 31 <br />Barry Katz: Right. It’s all expenses and you’re assuming no loss through infection in seedlings, or anything 32 <br />like that. I mean, it seems like as in a lot of optimism in what it is that you’re planning on doing. And I don’t 33 <br />really see that you really reconcile the costs and the amount of labor that’s going to be involved in doing 34 <br />this. Do you have expectation that they’ll be weeds in this bed? 35 <br /> 36 <br />Kara Brewer: Yes. What we’re doing to try and stop that is we’re putting down landscape fabric. So what 37 <br />you do ahead of time is you have to burn holes into the landscape fabric and then put that down. So that 38 <br />does help. It’s not full proof but. 39 <br /> 40 <br />Barry Katz: Ok. 41 <br /> 42 <br />Andy Petesch: You’ve already talked about the bees and you’ve talked about the agritourism activities. You 43 <br />mentioned workshops. Are you integrating workshops within the wedding events as well? 44 <br /> 45 <br />Kara Brewer: Yes, we are. So specifically for the weddings we’re integrating a couple of different things. 46 <br />We’re doing farm chores for the guests, honey tastings, floral workshops. For example, if the brides or the 47 <br />49