How Ambitious Harvest Stays Free

Ambitious Harvest is an independent gardening resource for Santa Cruz County and California's coast. Everything here, the grow guides, the planting calendar, the troubleshooting help, is free to read. A few small things help keep it that way, and we want to be straight with you about all of them.

Affiliate links

Some of our guides include links to products on Amazon and, occasionally, other retailers. If you click one of these links and buy something, we may earn a small commission. It costs you nothing extra, and it does not change the price you pay.

We only link to gear we would actually use in our own garden. A product earns a spot because it works in our conditions, not because of the commission. When a tool is something you can find locally, borrow, or skip entirely, we say so. We would rather lose a sale than send you toward something you do not need.

As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

Our products

We also sell our own digital guides and kits in the Ambitious Harvest Shop. These are written from the same Santa Cruz growing experience as the free articles.

How we make recommendations

- We recommend products we have used or would use ourselves.

- We favor durable, repairable tools over disposable ones.

- We note when something is better bought local, bought used, or done without.

- We update or remove links when a product is discontinued or no longer the best pick.

Questions

If you ever have a question about why we recommend something, or you have had a different experience with a product, we want to hear it. Reach us through the contact page.