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106 <br />656 <br />657 Jeffrey Schmitt: How many animals do you plan to have in total? <br />658 <br />659 Lisa Wallace Tate: We are not sure. It will be based what is available and how that grows according to the soils of <br />660 that area. We had an extension agent look at it and right now with what exists and what is likely to grow based on <br />661 the soils and natural grasses that are planted, we could handle up to 1,500 pounds of animal. Of course, we would <br />662 have small animals. Our oldest child is sixth grade so we will not have a true operating farm, it will be a place where <br />663 young children team about the farm in safe way. <br />664 <br />665 Jeffrey Schmitt: I am not an expert in land utilization but I have never heard a statistic about poundage per acre. I <br />666 can tell you that from a perspective from one acre that I would suggest, as the comment on page 234, that is wholly <br />667 insufficient for the number of animals that will be provided. Without some provision for rotational grazing, within a <br />668 short period of time, this will be brown dirt. There will be no grass. <br />669 <br />670 Steve Yuhasz: The purpose of having animals on the site is to teach the children about animals and not to raise <br />671 animals so to the extent that additional feed needs to be provided, that will be provided. <br />672 <br />673 Jeffrey Schmitt: My comment is that with five animals, this will tum into dirt quickly. <br />674 <br />675 Michelle Kempinski: I agree. <br />676 <br />677 Lany Wright: So do I. <br />678 <br />679 Michelle Kempinski: I am surrounded by people that own animals of varying sizes. I have not heard of poundage per <br />680 acre. <br />681 <br />682 Jeffrey Schmitt: I am not sure of the implication of this observation in regards to any of the specfic statues. <br />683 <br />684 Craufurd Goodwin: I would like to ask the applicant, if the land is too small, how can you have a farm on 14 acres, <br />685 why isn't it on 50 acres? <br />686 <br />687 Lisa Wallace Tate: The reason it is not going to be a huge working farm but an introduction of farming to children <br />688 and we will have a caretaker that will be there to provide but we will not have a farmer. <br />689 <br />690 Craufurd Goodwin:. Wouldn't all the problems with the neighbors disappear if you had a larger piece of property <br />691 which you could be in the middle. Is it financial? <br />692 <br />693 Lisa Wallace Tate: We wanted a space where children would come. We have been offered land from farmer's way <br />694 in the country where people would not drive their children. <br />695 <br />696 Lany Wright: Is the intent to teach farming or husbandry? <br />697 <br />698 Lisa Wallace Tate: The intent is to introduce children to what a farm is and what it provides us as a society. <br />699 <br />700 Lany Wright: Did I read that you would rotate these animals? <br />701 <br />702 Lisa Wallace Tate: There is a project we do every spring where we have young calves and children learn how to <br />703 handle them and show them at the 4H dairy show and then go back to the farmer. If we have a horse, it will be a <br />704 pony. The animals we will have we will be very careful. <br />705 <br />706 Jeffrey Schmitt: Has the back piece of this property been timbered? <br />