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Approved 12/12/16 <br />OC Board of Adjustment – 10/10/16 Page 46 of 113 <br /> <br /> <br />Kara Brewer: Each bed is going to be 70 by 4. 1 <br /> 2 <br />Barry Katz: So that’s 280 square feet. 3 <br /> 4 <br />Kara Brewer: Yeah. And that’s roughly. I mean in some areas. 5 <br /> 6 <br />Barry Katz: Right. And how many blocks per square foot? 7 <br /> 8 <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. 9 <br /> 10 <br />Barry Katz: Ok, so that’s 1,400 per bed. And how many beds do you have? 11 <br /> 12 <br />Kara Brewer: We’re going to do at least 22 to start… 13 <br /> 14 <br />Barry Katz: 22 beds? 15 <br /> 16 <br />Kara Brewer: Yes. 17 <br /> 18 <br />Barry Katz: So you’re into about 20,000 or more blocks? 19 <br /> 20 <br />Kara Brewer: Yes. And that’s not all at once. You do it succession so that you have blooms year round. 21 <br /> 22 <br />Barry Katz: Excuse me but, I assume that different beds… So you’re only planning on using certain beds to 23 <br />grow certain flowers and then they’re fallow the rest of the year. You’re not going to plant them over again 24 <br />and put in anything else? 25 <br /> 26 <br />Kara Brewer: Correct, not right now. Getting started imp just going to see how everything works and on 27 <br />seasonal. 28 <br /> 29 <br />Barry Katz: Managing 20,000 blocks is a massive undertaking. 30 <br /> 31 <br />Kara Brewer: It is, yes. 32 <br /> 33 <br />Andy Petesch: And so will you hire people and employ them in the area to work on the farm? 34 <br /> 35 <br />Kara Brewer: Yes. 36 <br />Barry Katz: Right. It’s all expenses and you’re assuming no loss through infection in seedlings, or anything 37 <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 38 <br />really see that you really reconcile the costs and the amount of labor that’s going to be involved in doing 39 <br />this. Do you have expectation that they’ll be weeds in this bed? 40 <br /> 41 <br />Kara Brewer: Yes. What we’re doing to try and stop that is we’re putting down landscape fabric. So what 42 <br />you do ahead of time is you have to burn holes into the landscape fabric and then put that down. So that 43 <br />does help. It’s not full proof but. 44 <br /> 45 <br />Barry Katz: Ok. 46 <br /> 47 <br />Andy Petesch: You’ve already talked about the bees and you’ve talked about the agritourism activities. You 48 <br />mentioned workshops. Are you integrating workshops within the wedding events as well? 49