As a member of the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, we earn an affiliate commission from some qualifying purchases you make on Amazon when you follow the links we provide on the site. There is no additional cost to you. We are required by law to provide this disclosure.

This doesn’t prevent us from describing how we look at affiliate linking from an ethical perspective.

Your purchase of affiliate-promoted products does not pay for our kids to go to college or for us to have a salary. Home Grown Fun™ is a passion project, not a side hustle. You are not supporting our personal lives, vacations, car purchases or trips to coffee shops. Our mission is to Explore, Experiment and Inspire others to care for and appreciate nature!

• Not all purchases you make will qualify for compensation we earn. What compensation we do earn is small but it does help pay for our website hosting plan and applications that help it run. Any other earnings are put back into Home Grown Fun to create educational materials! 

When we are sponsoring school garden initiatives, we contribute ALL / 100% of our affiliate earnings to those efforts. I have spent thousands of dollars of my own money above and beyond affiliate offers to create innovative and life changing school gardens!

Years ago we accepted online donations and tripled every contribution with our own contributions to help fund activities at schools!

We do not accept guest posts or paid links from external writers. My kids and I have written every single post. We limit advertising on our website and avoid annoying pop ups!

Unfortunately this reduces our earning potential significantly. But the user experience is better, the pages load faster and there are no frustrating distractions that make it difficult to scroll.

We make just enough money to keep Home Grown Fun™ going. We’re focused on inspiring others versus “making money off you”. We notice many blogs these days are “affiliate machines”. Home Grown Fun™ will never be an affiliate machine!

• Home Grown Fun™ primarily links to products we personally use and believe in, or think extremely helpful. Unless stated otherwise, any link to outside products from HomeGrownFun.com are most likely affiliate links.

Sometimes we link out to educational references or locations that have no purchase associated with them. We love to link to University Extension articles to add credibility and substance to our posts.

Why would we spend so much time working on something that we pay for out of our own pocket?

When we gifted a worm bin to a troubled 5th grade boy, and his great grandmother called us to say how it changed their lives, it made it all worth it! That’s just one example of hundreds of situations that continue to inspire Home Grown Fun™ to keep going.

If you have any questions regarding this disclaimer, please contact Cindy at homegrownfunfamily@gmail.com.