This is NOT a real farm business. This is a portfolio demonstration website built on Mark Barney's actual hobby farm (653 Pudding Hill Road, Hampton, Connecticut) to showcase what you could build for REAL working farms (alpaca operations, goat farms, chicken operations, etc.).
I copied the implementation-plan example files from C:\Projects\ModelCompare into a clearly labeled folder:
reference/modelcompare-examples I also added a handoff manifest so the next assistant can immediately see what was imported and what was missing:
IMPORT_MANIFEST.md
Owner: Mark Barney
Location: Hampton, Connecticut (NECCOG member town)
Animals: Chickens (hobby farm), Pawel & Pawleen (Yorkshire Terriers)
Products: Eggs (the hero product for this demo)
This website is a proof-of-concept for prospecting small working farms in Connecticut/Rhode Island. When Mark talks to goat farmers, alpaca breeders, and chicken operations about web presence, he shows them this: "Here's what I built for my own farm. You could have something just like this—but for YOUR products, YOUR prices, YOUR customers."
It's a working demo that proves the technical capability and the business model.
A simple e-commerce site where:
- Customers browse farm products (eggs in this case)
- Add items to cart
- Check out with Stripe
- Receive order confirmation via email
- Farm owner gets notification to fulfill order
That's it. No fancy features. Just clean, functional, working e-commerce that real small farms can understand and want.
- This is a TEST CASE for the prospecting business — not a money-maker, not a real farm business
- Realistic data matters — use actual chicken/egg details, not fake inventory
- Portfolio quality required — this website gets shown to real farm customers
- Simplicity is a feature — small farmers don't want complexity; they want it to work
- Make it LOOK like a real farm website — not a generic template, but something with actual farm personality
See STRIPE_INTEGRATION_PLAN.md for implementation details.