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We’ve posted a few times about Honest Farm (here and here). Well the site is now live, just in time for the Grand Opening.

For those of you within the Central Kentucky area, please stop by Midway this Saturday, July 8, and join Susie Quick for the Grand Opening of Honest Farm.

We are proud of this site. We really enjoy working with start-ups. The money is not even close to large corporate clients, but the work is satisfying. Big Business clients pay extremely, insanely, almost pornographically well, but they are also secretive. We can’t blog about them like we can our small business clients (oops, let me run and check the confidentiality agreements of our corporate clients and see if I just violated one of them, ha ha).
Honest Farm was our first official Non-Blog Blogs. Huh? Say What?

Susie wanted a blog. She had seen many small organic/sustainable farms use a blog to tell their story. But, she also wanted the standard elements of a web site, like a splash/landing page, and regular/static pages that didn’t have the typical feel of a “blog.” In essence, she wanted a blog, but didn’t.

What is even scarier is that we understood exactly what she meant.

So, check out http://honestfarm.org, and see a small business web site that is a blog, but doesn’t look “bloggy.”

Good luck Susie. We hope the farm is a success.

We enjoyed our first meeting with Susie Quick, owner of Honest Farm in Midway.  She is a very energetic and interesting lady. 

She brought a video segment she did on Good Morning America last year.  She’ll be adding it to her blog, along with lots of other recipes.  Susei has a unique take on organic food, as Susie says “Think of organic food as your grandparents food, honest food.” 

While we are getting her design set up we thought we’d test a plugin we found to do streaming video with WordPress.  So, lights, camera, action.

GMA Video

Susie Quick on GMA

We are not totally satisfied with how crisp the video is, we still need to do some tweeking.  We’ll play around with it and make it better for the launch of her site, HonestFarm.org.

We’re meeting with noted cookbook author and former New York magazine writer Susie Quick this afternoon to discuss her new web site — honestfarm.org.  We are honored and excited to work with her. 

She is the latest small business looking to do a blog for a web site.  This should be a fun project, and Susie has promised to bring us some some vegetables from her farm – now if we can just line up a butcher shop that will drop off some choice ribeye.

Seriously, Susie describes her honest farm in the following way:

“In the heart of Kentucky’s bluegrass country near the historic village of Midway, noted cookbook author Susie Quick has founded a nonprofit sustainable farm. The mission of Honest Farm is to raise community awareness of holistic farming practices by creating a children’s garden and farm stand offering fresh produce to residents and visitors to the Midway area.”

We are wanting to get the web site launched when she opens, which is in July. 

This summer take a leisurely drive down Old Frankfort Pike and stop by the Honest Farm at 484 Spring Station Road in Midway.  Oh, and don’t forget to check out her web site from time to time for organic farming information and recipes.

We met with Todd Ferguson today.  He owns cleardigitalsolutions.com, a web design, development and hosting company based out of Lexington and Georgetown.

We had a good discussion about Economic Development and how we could partner to build an economic development project tracking system for state, local and regional economic development agencies and utilities to use.

It was also refreshing to comisserate with another web designer/developer about the state of the industry in Central Kentucky and the expectations of small businesses.