Half Pint Farm | Headless Shopify Farm Website & Google Calendar Booking

This one is personal. Half Pint Farm is my sister's farm in Maryville, Tennessee, and this site is a genuine sibling collaboration. Our family is creative by nature - it runs from our grandmother through our mother and into both of us - and that thread shows in every corner of this project.

The entire visual identity started as a Canva concept designed by the client herself. Rather than just exporting what she had, every element was extracted from her design and rebuilt as a proper web-ready asset - colors, textures, graphic elements, silhouettes - then assembled into a fully custom Next.js 16 + React 19 site styled with Tailwind CSS v4, backed by a Neon serverless Postgres database with Prisma ORM.

One of the site's most distinctive custom details is the rustic image framing system. Every image placed on the site is automatically wrapped in a hand-crafted-style frame - no manual work required by the client. The frames come in multiple sizes and thicknesses that scale to match the image they're surrounding, giving the entire site a warm, tactile aesthetic that feels true to the farm's character.

The header and navigation are context-aware: colors shift when visitors navigate away from the main page. A floating hand-drawn texture overlays the edge of the menu, and a matching texture with a cows silhouette anchors the footer - details that make the experience feel finished and considered from the very first scroll to the last.

The Farmer's Market runs on a full Shopify integration - Storefront API-powered cart and checkout - selling the farm's handcrafted jams, jellies, pickles, herbs, and artisan vanilla extract. The Animals, Experiences, and Sale Pen sections are all built on Shopify Metaobjects, giving the client a genuine no-code content system: she adds, edits, or retires an animal, an experience, or a livestock listing herself, directly in Shopify Admin, with zero code changes.

Experiences include a full booking system built around Google Calendar rather than a separate database - a custom admin panel reads and writes calendar events directly, so availability, capacity, and booking details stay in perfect sync with the calendar the client already uses day to day. A Pay Now checkout layer, built on Shopify and backed by the Postgres database with a webhook-verified payment pipeline, lets visitors book and pay for an experience in a single flow.

Beyond the core build: a GOVX ID veteran-discount integration at checkout, a Tennessee-specific shipping compliance fix for farm food products, and full sitewide accessibility, SEO/AEO, and security audits - all backed by a complete management guide so the client can run the site independently.