A website for your East Dummerston business on the Route 5 corridor
Farm stands, orchards and trades in East Dummerston get six pages written for them, on their own domain, with hours and prices they can change from a login. $499 a year, everything included.
$499 a year, everything included
Orchard country on the county's busiest corridor
East Dummerston is the side of Dummerston that faces the Connecticut River: the Route 5 corridor and the hill roads climbing west from it, with I-91 running through and Brattleboro starting almost at the town line. Its postal name covers a good part of the town (05346 reaches all the way up Middle Road), but its character is its own.
The best-known expression of that character grows on Kipling Road. Scott Farm, worked continuously since 1791 and now owned by the Landmark Trust USA, tends around 130 varieties of heirloom apples across a 571-acre historic property that also includes Naulakha, the house where Rudyard Kipling lived in the 1890s. Orchards, sugarbush and small farms set the tone for the whole corridor, along with trades and home businesses on the hill roads.
The Route 5 and I-91 corridor puts more daily traffic within reach than anywhere else in town, and Brattleboro's customers are close by. The farm-and-food identity of the area is what visitors and locals come looking for: pick-your-own, farm stands, heirloom apples, maple in March, and the foliage and apple season that fills Route 5 with visitors. East Dummerston is one of three parts of Dummerston, with the hilltop center above it and West Dummerston over the ridge on Route 30.
East Dummerston at a glance
Quick facts
- Part of
- Dummerston, VT (the Route 5 and Connecticut River side)
- Landmark
- Scott Farm on Kipling Road, farmed since 1791, about 130 heirloom apple varieties
- Literary neighbor
- Naulakha, Rudyard Kipling's 1890s home, on the same historic property
- Getting through
- Route 5 and I-91, minutes from Brattleboro
- Character
- orchards, sugarbush, small farms, and home businesses on the hill roads
What an East Dummerston business needs from a website
People increasingly decide where to stop before they drive, so a farm stand or orchard on Route 5 is often chosen on a phone, and a trade on a hill road is chosen by someone in Brattleboro or Putney comparing a few names. Your site gives them six pages written for you, including an areas page listing the towns you cover. It loads quickly on a phone with your number one tap away, runs on your own domain with a hello@ address, and you can change hours, prices, photos and your phone number yourself from a login when apple season starts or ends.
Start your website or read the full details on postcardadvantage.com.
Running a business in East Dummerston
Most drivers reach East Dummerston from the interstate. Someone heading north on I-91 leaves the highway at Brattleboro or Putney. From either exit, Route 5 runs along the east side of town near the Connecticut River. That makes the village one of the easiest parts of the county to reach from out of state. Visitors from Massachusetts or Connecticut can be at a farm stand here within minutes of leaving the highway.
Being easy to reach also means being easy to compare. A family deciding where to pick apples on a fall Saturday will often have three or four orchards open on a map at once, from Putney down to Brattleboro. The one that clearly states what is ripe this week, when the gate opens and where to park tends to get the visit. Vague pages lose to clear ones.
Apples are only part of the calendar. Maple producers boil when the sap runs in late winter, and greenhouse and garden sales peak in May. Summer is berries and vegetables. Even the trades follow a rhythm. Excavation and foundation work get packed into the dry months; plowing contracts and indoor jobs take over once the ground freezes. Keeping a short line on the home page about the current season answers the first question most callers would ask.
Up the hill roads, East Dummerston turns rural fast. Home businesses there have more in common with the rest of Dummerston than with the Route 5 frontage, and they usually do not want a stream of drop-in visitors. For them a website can list the towns covered with a phone number beside them. The street address can stay off entirely. The same areas page that helps an orchard can help a carpenter or a bookkeeper working from a converted barn.
The search side matters as much as the site itself. When someone types an orchard near Brattleboro into a phone, the results lean heavily on the Google Business Profile that sits next to your website. The Google Business Profile mistakes that hide Brattleboro-area businesses are worth reading before the next apple season, since the two work together.
Spelling out your location helps as well. Some customers think of you as Brattleboro and others as Dummerston. The postal name also covers more ground than the village does. Saying all of it once, plainly, lets each of them recognize you.
You can start your East Dummerston website for $499 a year, with six pages written from a short form.
What you get for $499 a year
Tell us about your business and we write, build and host a complete website for it. You will never have to choose a template or install an update.
Six pages, written for you
A home page, an about page, your services, the areas you cover, answers to the questions customers ask, and a contact page. Written from what you tell us about your business, not filled with placeholder text.
A logo and images
Use your own logo and photos, or we make a clean logo and an image for every page. Either way the site looks finished the day it goes live.
Your own web address
The site runs on your own domain, with an email address to match: hello@ your domain, forwarded to the email you already use. If you need a domain, we can buy it for you: its price is shown on the order form and added to the yearly bill.
Hosting, security and backups
Fast hosting, a security certificate so browsers show the padlock, and backups, kept current all year without you having to think about it.
A login to change anything
Change a price, a phone number, a sentence or a photo yourself, whenever you like, from a simple login.
The legal pages
Terms, a privacy policy and an accessibility statement, so the site covers the basics a business website is expected to have.
Need more than six pages?
If your business needs more than our six-page website, we can quote custom work. We build custom websites from $2,500 to $100,000, depending on what the site has to do. Anything is possible. For a quote, call (888) 348-1992 or email hello@brattleborolocal.com.
Three steps, and most of the work is ours.
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Tell us about your business
One form: what you do, where, what makes you different, your services and prices if you want them shown, and any photos or logo you have. Anything you leave out, we simply do not claim.
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We build it
We write every page, design it, and set it up on your web address, 24 to 48 hours from payment.
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It goes live, and we look after it
There is nothing for you to approve. Your site goes live as soon as it is built, and we email you the link. If you see anything you want changed, tell us and we change it. Then it runs all year and renews on its own, with reminders before every renewal.
More about Dummerston
See the Dummerston page, or browse every Windham County town and village.
Questions from East Dummerston business owners
Yes. Every site comes with a login where you can change any text, price, photo or phone number, including your hours and what is ready this week. You can post October hours in the fall and winter hours after the last apples go, without calling anyone. The site does not take online orders, so customers visit, call or email you.
Yes, truthfully. Your about and contact pages say where you actually are, in East Dummerston on the Route 5 corridor, and your areas page can list Brattleboro, Putney and the other towns you serve. We write from what you tell us on the form, and you can edit the list later from your login.
No, that is your choice. Tell us on the form how you want your location shown. Many trades list only the towns they cover, which is what the areas page is for, along with a phone number that is one tap away on a phone. If you have a shop or stand customers visit, we include the address and directions you give us.
One flat price: $499 a year, with the writing, design, hosting, security certificate, backups and your login all included. There is no setup fee and no monthly bill. It renews automatically each year, and you can turn automatic renewal off at any time.
24 to 48 hours from payment. It goes live as soon as it is built, and we email you the link.
We do, from what you tell us on the order form. If you see anything you want changed once your site is live, tell us and we change it.
Yes. Tell us which domain on the form. We send you two settings to change, and your site goes live once they are changed. We also check that any email you already have on that domain keeps working.
Brattleboro Local is a division of Postcard Advantage LLC. Your order, billing, website and support are all handled by Postcard Advantage, and you can reach us at (888) 348-1992.
Ask us for a quote. Beyond the six-page website, we take on custom builds priced from $2,500 up to $100,000, set by the size of the job. Anything is possible. Call (888) 348-1992 or email hello@brattleborolocal.com and tell us what you have in mind.
Yes, as optional extras paid separately from the website. Call tracking is $49 a year and puts a local tracking number on your site that rings straight through to you. The AI receptionist is $99 a year on top of call tracking and takes a message when you cannot answer. Add either on the order form or later from your account.
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