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Selling something people have to understand before they can buy it

The Garden Doctor teaching farm in Dunnellon sells consultations, classes, plants and a growing system. That is four different things to four different people.

Client
The Garden Doctor Teaching Farm
Where
Dunnellon, Florida
Type
Sustainable agriculture and education
The job
Website design and build
The The Garden Doctor homepage
A preview of the The Garden Doctor website built by Northfolk.

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Four businesses wearing one coat

The Garden Doctor does farm consultations, sells food forest plants, runs hands on classes, and supplies a bucket growing system. Those are genuinely different offers aimed at genuinely different people, and the person who wants a consultation is not the person who wants to buy a plant.

The usual failure is to average them together into a single vague page about sustainable agriculture, which leaves every visitor doing the work of figuring out whether anything here is for them. Most will not bother.

Separating the offers without splitting the business

We gave each of the four things its own clear space with its own explanation, while keeping the personality of the farm running through all of it. Somebody arriving for classes lands on classes. Somebody arriving for plants lands on plants. Nobody has to hunt.

That structure also does real search work. Four distinct offers described properly can rank for four distinct sets of searches, where one blended page competes for none of them well.

Keeping the voice

Know your farmer, know your food is the line this farm operates on, and it means something specific. Sanding that down into generic sustainability language would have removed the exact thing that makes somebody choose this farm over ordering from a catalogue.

So the writing stayed direct and stayed theirs. Our job was to organise it, not to smooth it into the same voice every other site has.

Why we like this one

It is a Dunnellon business teaching Dunnellon people to grow food, and it is five minutes from where we work. Getting to build for a neighbour is the reason we started aiming this business at our own county.

See more of this kind of work on the The Garden Doctor project page, or browse everything on the work page.

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