Copyright & DMCA Policy

1. Our position

Harvestead respects the intellectual property of others and expects members to do the same. Members upload photos, posts, and listings to The Grove and to farm stands. If you believe material on Harvestead infringes your copyright, tell us and we will act promptly.

2. Our imagery and course material

Harvestead lessons, courses, workbooks, ebooks, tools, and site copy are original works owned by reapandsowpa, LLC. Crop, pest, and hero imagery used across the site was created for Harvestead, including images produced with generative tools, and is not licensed from third-party photographers. Icons come from the Lucide icon set under the ISC license. Third-party names such as Amazon, Stripe, and Google are used only to identify those services; we claim no rights in their marks.

Our written lessons and crop guides are developed in partnership with generative software tools, then reviewed, fact-checked, and finalized by human authors. Where a lesson states a specific standard, interval, temperature, or spacing number, that figure comes from public agricultural guidance published by sources such as USDA, the Cooperative Extension System, and the National Center for Home Food Preservation. We express those facts in our own words and name the type of source so growers can check the original for themselves.

If you believe any image, phrase, or lesson on Harvestead is substantially similar to a work you own, send a notice under section 4 and we will review it on the merits.

3. How our lessons are written

Gardening knowledge has been documented for generations. Harvestead does not claim to have invented how to plant a tomato, when to sow carrots, or how to pressure-can green beans. Our role is to gather, organize, and present that existing knowledge—alongside practical tools—in one place so growers can act on it with confidence.

Lessons, crop guides, ebooks, and courses are drafted in collaboration with generative software tools, then edited, verified, and quality-checked by people. A human author is responsible for the accuracy, voice, and final wording of every published lesson. We do not publish unreviewed machine output, we do not auto-generate lessons on a schedule, and we do not present content as reviewed when it has not been.

Safety-related guidance, including food preservation, raw manure intervals, contaminated-soil testing, and plant toxicity, is checked against current public health and extension guidance before it goes live and is reviewed again whenever that guidance changes. Any grower, partner, or reviewer who questions the origin of a specific passage can write to us at the address below and we will explain how that lesson was sourced and reviewed.

4. Filing a takedown notice

Send a written notice that includes all of the following:

• Identification of the copyrighted work you claim was infringed.
• The exact URL or page on Harvestead where the material appears, with enough detail for us to find it.
• Your name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address.
• A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
• A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorized to act on the owner's behalf.
• Your physical or electronic signature.

Send notices to our designated agent at hello@harvestead.com.

5. What we do next

We review complete notices and typically remove or disable access to the reported material while we review it. We notify the member who posted it and give them the reason. Knowingly filing a false notice can carry legal liability.

6. Counter-notices

If your content was removed and you believe that was a mistake or misidentification, send a counter-notice to the same address with your contact details, identification of the removed material and where it appeared, a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the removal was a mistake, your consent to the jurisdiction of a federal court in your district, and your signature. We may restore the material after the period allowed by law unless the original claimant files a court action.

7. Repeat infringers

We suspend or terminate accounts that repeatedly post infringing material. See our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.