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These Terms of Use explain the rules for accessing and using Garden & Pantry. By using this website, you agree to these terms.

Effective date: August 18, 2026
Last updated: August 18, 2026

1. About Garden & Pantry

Garden & Pantry is an independently operated website created by Elle and Mike. We publish gardening, harvesting, food-preservation, seasonal-recipe and related educational content based on firsthand experience and research.

Mike is a certified Master Gardener. Elle grew up around farming and gardening on Mactan Island in the Philippines. Their experience does not replace advice from your local extension service or another qualified professional familiar with your specific situation.

2. Educational information only

Content on Garden & Pantry is provided for general educational and informational purposes. It is not individualized horticultural, agricultural, medical, nutritional, veterinary, legal, financial or other professional advice.

Gardening results vary according to climate, weather, soil, plant variety, pests, equipment, timing and individual practices. Information based on our Zone 8b waterfront garden may need to be adjusted for your location.

You are responsible for evaluating whether information on this website is appropriate for your circumstances.

3. Food-preservation and recipe safety

Food safety depends on ingredients, preparation, equipment, altitude, storage conditions and the preservation method used.

When canning or otherwise preserving food, use current tested instructions from authoritative sources such as the National Center for Home Food Preservation, the United States Department of Agriculture or a university extension program.

Do not change processing times, acidity, ingredient proportions or equipment requirements in a tested preservation recipe unless an authoritative source states that the change is safe.

You are responsible for checking ingredients for allergies, intolerances, medication interactions and other individual health concerns.

4. Plant and product safety

Correctly identify any plant before eating, applying or otherwise using it. Do not rely solely on a photograph, automated identification tool or general website description when safety is uncertain.

Always read and follow product labels, equipment instructions and applicable laws. Keep tools, chemicals, supplements, plants and preserved foods away from children and animals when appropriate.

5. Intellectual property

Unless otherwise stated, the original text, photographs, graphics, downloadable resources, branding and other content published by Garden & Pantry are owned by or licensed to Garden & Pantry and are protected by applicable intellectual-property laws.

You may:

• Read and share links to our publicly available pages.
• Quote a brief excerpt with clear credit and a link to the original page.
• Print a reasonable number of pages for your personal, noncommercial use.

You may not, without prior written permission:

• Republish complete articles or substantial portions of them.
• Copy our photographs, graphics or downloadable resources.
• Sell, sublicense or commercially exploit our content.
• Remove copyright, attribution or disclosure notices.
• Present our content as your own.
• Use automated tools to scrape, harvest or reproduce the website at scale.
• Use our content to build or train a commercial dataset or competing publication.

Permission requests can be submitted through our Contact page.

6. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Use the website for unlawful, fraudulent or harmful purposes.
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the website or its systems.
• Introduce malware, harmful code or disruptive automated traffic.
• Impersonate another person or misrepresent your identity.
• Submit spam, abusive material or unsolicited commercial promotions.
• Interfere with the website’s security, availability or operation.

7. Comments and submissions

If comments or other public submissions are enabled, you remain responsible for what you submit. Do not post confidential information, unlawful material, harassment, spam or content that infringes another person’s rights.

We may moderate, decline or remove submissions at our discretion. Submitting a question or idea does not create a confidential, professional or advisory relationship.

8. Affiliate links, advertising and sponsorships

Garden & Pantry may earn income through advertising, affiliate links, digital products or partnerships.

If you make a qualifying purchase through an affiliate link, we may receive a commission at no additional cost to you. Compensation does not guarantee positive coverage, and sponsored content will be identified.

Prices, availability, warranties and product claims are controlled by the applicable seller or manufacturer and may change without notice.

Read our Affiliate Disclosure for additional information.

9. External websites and embedded content

Garden & Pantry may link to or display content from third-party websites. A link does not mean that we control or guarantee the third party’s content, products, availability, security or privacy practices.

Your use of an external website is governed by that website’s own terms and policies.

10. Digital products and downloads

Additional terms presented at the time of purchase or download may apply to digital products, printable resources or other paid materials.

Unless a product license states otherwise, downloads are provided for the purchaser’s personal, noncommercial use and may not be copied, resold, redistributed or shared publicly.

11. No warranties

Garden & Pantry is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we make no guarantee that:

• The website will always be available or error-free.
• Every statement will remain current indefinitely.
• You will achieve a particular gardening, preservation, health or financial result.
• External links, products or services will remain available or suitable.

We work to provide accurate and useful information, but errors and changing recommendations are possible.

12. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Garden & Pantry and its creators will not be liable for losses, injuries, illness, crop failure, property damage or other consequences arising from your use of, or reliance on, this website.

Nothing in these Terms excludes liability that cannot legally be excluded.

13. Privacy

Your use of the website is also subject to our Privacy Policy, which explains how information may be collected and used.

14. Changes to the website or these terms

We may update, remove or reorganize website content and features at any time. We may also revise these Terms of Use. Changes become effective when the updated terms are posted with a new revision date.

15. Severability

If any portion of these Terms is found unenforceable, the remaining portions will continue to apply to the extent permitted by law.

16. Contact

Questions about these Terms of Use may be submitted through our Contact page.