Botanic gardens, nursery & café · Sunshine Coast, QLD · 2026
Fairhill. The Sunshine Coast day out families plan their weekend around.
01 — Context
The brief
Fairhill is a nature destination in Ninderry where a family can spend the whole day. Award-winning native botanic gardens to wander, a farmyard the kids can get hands-on with, a café doing farm-to-table, and one of the region’s best-loved native plant nurseries to take a piece of it home. Three experiences on one site, 45 years in the making.
Behind the magic was a problem visitors never saw. The old website was a brochure with no engine underneath. Tickets were scattered across third-party platforms, staff were copy-pasting bookings into spreadsheets, and the seasonal events that fill the calendar lived in someone’s head.
Angela wanted a site that did the venue justice and ran the business behind it: one place that handles the gardens, the events, the café, the nursery, recruitment and reviews, and reads like Fairhill rather than a booking platform.
02 — Approach
Our approach
We built the site around the visit. A family planning their weekend can see what’s on, what the kids will get to do across the Three Realms, when the café’s open, and book their tickets without ever leaving the page they landed on.
The seasonal events are the heartbeat of the place, so we made them effortless to run. The Fairhill team adds a new event, a blog post, a job listing or a nursery update themselves, from one dashboard, the moment they want it live. No developer in the loop, no week of back-and-forth.
The whole thing leans into Fairhill’s own voice: lush, unhurried, rooted in place. No stock photography, no hard-sell booking pressure. The chance to book is right there when a visitor’s ready, and invisible until they are.
03 — Outcome
The outcome
Fairhill now has a home that matches the day out it offers. Visitors arrive already knowing what’s on and what they’ll get to see, tickets and café and nursery all in one place, and the gardens that earned the reputation finally have a website worthy of them.
The team runs the lot themselves. A new seasonal event that used to take a week of emails now goes live in an afternoon, which means the calendar stays full and the place always feels alive.
Built to hold up under the weekend rush, too: the key pages load fast on the phones families are actually booking from, which keeps the paid-social spend that drives traffic working as hard as it should.
- 45 years
- A Sunshine Coast institution, online to match
- 5,000+
- Native species across the gardens and nursery
- One site
- Gardens, events, café, nursery and reviews
04 — Smart features
Under the hood
The clever bits doing the work behind the scenes.
01
A review system that earns its own trust.
Visitors leave a review in a couple of taps, and the approved ones publish straight to the site — 154 of them and counting, at a 4.9 average. It’s social proof the team owns outright rather than renting from a third-party widget, sat right where a family deciding on their weekend will see it.
02
Recruitment the team runs itself.
A genuinely busy venue is always hiring, so we gave Fairhill its own careers page. The team posts a role — Animal Ranger, Barista, Chef, Maintenance — from the same dashboard, applicants apply right there, and every listing carries the structured data that puts it in front of jobseekers searching on Google.
05 — Tech stack
What we built it on.
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