Disclosure
About My Web Site
The main idea of this site is to provide timely, helpful, unbiased, local and hopefully accurate information that gardeners in Pennsylvania will find useful. I love plants and gardening and want to share what I’ve learned to help others be successful in their own gardens.
When I mention a product or a place here, it’s because I believe in it. I accept advertising, but those are separate and obvious as such (a la traditional newspapers, the field in which I’ve made a career). No one can buy a kind mention here. I don’t “sell” recommendations in response to an offer to advertise. I’m a journalist by training and heart and try to remain as independent and unbiased as possible.
I fund this site myself, and it’s not affiliated with any other company or entity, including Pa. Media Group, the publisher of The Patriot-News and PennLive.com, for which I write as a contracted columnist. I do link back and forth to writings there and here, but I don’t get paid for those links or for any product-related mentions in either place. Other than the few ads you might see from time to time here, the only income I receive through this site are from sales of my books and the free-will donations of kind and thoughtful readers (most of whom are listed on my George’s Friends page). Even the ads are limited to garden-related businesses that I know and trust. I don’t do random Google ads, for example, or any income-generators that toss up ads that are out of my control based on what you might have been searching for. (I don’t like that whole idea.)
I don’t collect or disseminate any personal information. If you sign up for my free e-column, I need your email solely to get you the column information. I don’t/won’t sell or trade any addresses. And if you buy any of my info materials, your payment information goes directly and securely to PayPal. I don’t even see payment details.
I try very hard to be as accurate as possible. Let me know if you see anything here that’s not accurate or that becomes outdated (broken links and such). And although I’m no fan of legal mumbo-jumbo, I hereby warn you that if you do something I mention and it doesn’t work out very well, don’t blame me! I’m merely passing along what I’ve learned or observed first-hand as information to help you make your own decisions.