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One plan that keeps your whole season connected

From what you plan and diagnose to what you harvest and sell, it's one record start to finish. What you planted, what the Guardian's Cropwright ability found in that bed, what you pulled out of it, and what you sold — so next season starts from what actually happened instead of memory.

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Harvesteader

Every season you record makes the next one sharper.

$14.99/ month

One price for the full grower toolkit: the Harvestead Garden Guardian (with Cropwright and pest detection abilities) and Garden Studio are included.

  • Everything in open access
  • Unlimited Guardian Cropwright scans (identify any plant, pest, or problem from a photo)
  • Climate-aware almanac: 30 years of your location's own daily lows, elevation-corrected, so you plant by measured frost drift instead of a static zone table — kept season to season New
  • Year over year: this season against your last, same week and same date, in the ledger, season review, and your weekly email
  • Your frost record kept for good: every season saved side by side, how far your own frost-free window has moved, and an email two weeks before each frost date New
  • The Harvestead Garden Guardian. Real-time guidance for every planting, pest watch, and next step New

Harvesteader: one checkout, $14.99/mo total, cancel anytime. Taxes may apply.

Harvesteader included

Sales bundle

The same garden record becomes your sales record.

$39.99/ month

One price for the full market-grower package: Harvesteader is included, so $39.99 / mo is the total.

  • Everything in Harvesteader is included: one plan, one price
  • Signature tool Harvestead's Market HQ is your hub: everything in the Sales bundle lives there, including your Harvest Stand
  • Your own public Harvest Stand page, a shareable shop where buyers order directly from you
  • Card checkout on your Harvest Stand; money lands in your own account and Harvestead takes no cut
  • Get paid your way: Stripe, Square, PayPal, Venmo, or cash at pickup
  • Pre-orders for market or farm pickup with live quantity-on-hand

Includes Harvesteader: one checkout, $39.99/mo total, cancel anytime. Taxes may apply.

Why growers pick Harvestead

A garden platform that follows local climate trends — and carries your plan from the first frost estimate to your last sale

Climate Drift: nobody can match it

Your frost dates are estimated from thirty years of gridded daily lows for your area, with elevation considered. Climate Drift compares the last decade with that longer baseline to show whether the area's frost-free season has tended to lengthen, shorten, or stay steady. It is a trend, not an exact garden reading or a forecast.

Continuity: nobody else connects the dots

That one corrected date moves everything downstream: sowing windows, succession rounds, harvest estimates and watering, then what you list, what you price and what you sell. One record from the first seed to the last sale, kept year after year, so every season is measured against your own history instead of a printed average.

Radical transparency: and you can check it

We name what the measurement cannot see, grid cells about six miles wide, frost pockets, cold-air drainage. We say plainly which features are shipped and which are not. And we never take a commission on anything you sell.

Your planting dates come from your weather, not a 2012 zone map

Most garden apps hand you the frost dates printed on a seed packet: a zone band drawn for a whole region, years ago. Seasons have moved since then, and a zone band cannot see your hillside, your elevation, or the cold air that pools in your low corner. Planting on those dates is how growers lose a flat of tomatoes to a late freeze, or run out of season before the peppers finish.

30 years of daily lows for your area

More local than one date for your whole zone, with elevation considered. It is an area-level estimate; your own frost reports help tune it toward your garden.

Frost-date drift you can see

The last decade against the 30-year normal: how much earlier your spring frost ends, how much later fall arrives, and how many growing days you gained or lost.

It recalibrates from what you report

Log the frost you actually saw and your dates move toward your yard. Recent years count more, wild outliers are ignored, and one report nudges while several lock it in.

Every plan downstream shifts with it

Sowing windows, succession rounds, harvest estimates, and watering all read those dates, so a corrected frost date corrects your whole calendar.

Anyone can look up their zone and frost dates free. Tracking how they drift season after season, and keeping the calibrated record that gets sharper every year you log, is Harvesteader.

Continuity

Your records are yours

Downgrade, cancel, or pause your plan for three seasons. Every planting, harvest, frost report, photo, note, and sale stays exactly where you put it. Nothing is wiped for being on a cheaper plan. What a paid plan buys is the view: same week last year, frost drift, year-over-year yield. Come back at any point and your whole history is still there, ready to compare. You can export every record to CSV any time, on any plan, including your order book and buyer list.

Read the full continuity promise
Open access

Look around before you decide

Checking your USDA zone, frost dates, and Climate Drift stays open so you can see your numbers before you decide. A free account gets you one Guardian Cropwright plant-diagnosis scan a month, the newsletter, and the ebook. The full course, deeper tools, and saved garden records unlock with a paid plan.

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  • One Guardian Cropwright plant-diagnosis scan a month, free with any account
  • Monthly newsletter
  • Learning games
  • Open Learn library (not the full course)
  • Set your USDA zone & frost dates
  • Free ebook: Natural Composting in an Urban Environment
  • Journey Progress tracker & Season Impact totals
  • Garden journal: weather, notes, and your season goals. Printable, on every plan
  • Crop library with photos, companion guides, and grow notes
  • Pest library with natural fixes, lifecycle info, and prevention tips
  • Zone Almanac: frost dates and real grower-recorded harvest windows for your zone (drift tracking over time is Harvesteader)
Honest comparison

If you bought these separately

Typical market rates for the pieces Harvestead replaces, split honestly by what you actually need. The point isn't that we're always cheaper: it's that none of those tools talk to each other.

If you only grow for your household

  • Plant ID / diagnosis app$2.50 – $8 / mo
  • Garden planner with zone dates$3 – $6 / mo
  • A course that's actually worth it$50 – $300 once
  • Subtotal~$5.50 – $14/mo + $50 – $300 course
  • Harvesteader, one record$14.99 / mo

What those apps don't sell at any price: frost dates measured from 30 years of your own local weather, the drift in those dates over the last decade, a season record that carries forward year to year, and the full course, which Harvesteader covers outright in the first year.

If you sell what you grow

  • Everything above~$5.50 – $14 / mo
  • Market garden record keeping$15 – $40 / mo
  • CSA / wholesale invoicing$10 – $25 / mo
  • Subtotal~$30 – $79/mo + $50 – $300 course
  • Sales bundle (Harvesteader included), one record$39.99 / mo

This is where the stack really adds up, and where one record replaces it: your beds, your harvest, your buyers, and your invoices in the same place.

On every plan

Every plan includes

  • Transparent pricing.
  • No credit card required to start your trial.
  • No surprise charges — what you see is what you pay.
  • Built for non-technical people. No engineering, spreadsheets, or setup required.
  • Cancel anytime, no long-term contract.
  • 100+ lessons you can browse by topic. Soil, compost, pests, seed saving, and more.
  • Quick charts and reference guides for common crops, companions, and preservation basics.
  • USDA hardiness zone lookup with best plants to grow now suggestions, updated by month.
  • Personalized learning path (Balcony → Market).
  • Personalized to your zone & frost dates, recalculated from recent local weather.
  • Free updates as new tools ship.
  • 7-day free trial on any paid plan: start risk-free.
  • Your data is yours: export your journal, harvests, sales, schedule, and garden plans anytime as CSV, iCal, or print.

What is already inside

100+
written lessons
175+
crop profiles
115+
pest & animal profiles
70+
plant disease profiles
14
ebooks in the library
Nonprofit & community orgs

Are you a nonprofit?

Find out how you can get your members Harvestead access for free. We partner with churches, food banks, community gardens, extension programs, and mutual-aid networks so the people you serve can learn, plan, grow, and keep better records without the cost.

Ask about nonprofit access

Not sure yet? Start free, then move to Harvesteader when you want your history kept. Add selling any time from your dashboard.