Affiliate & Advertising Disclosure
This page explains, in plain English, how Lawncraft makes money — because a site built on straight cost math owes you total honesty about the times it suggests you buy something.
What affiliate links are
Some links on this site are affiliate links. That means if you click one and buy something, the retailer pays us a small commission — typically a few percent of the sale. It costs you nothing extra. The price you pay is the same as if you'd gone to the store directly.
We participate in affiliate programs including Amazon Associates and lawn-and-garden programs through networks like ShareASale, Impact, and CJ Affiliate (seed companies, soil-testing labs, and equipment brands). When an article contains affiliate links, you'll see a short notice near the top of the page saying so.
Our affiliate policy (the part that matters)
This site is anti-upsell, so every affiliate link here follows three rules:
- The DIY-vs-hire math comes first. Every recommended product carries real cost math — what it costs, what hiring the job out costs, and when doing it yourself actually saves money. If we can't show the numbers, we don't link it.
- We say when hiring out wins. Our guides regularly conclude that a pro with the right equipment beats a DIY weekend. No commission is worth the trust we'd lose pretending otherwise.
- No miracle-product hype. We don't recommend "one bag fixes everything" products, and our buying guides name what to skip, not just what to buy.
We only recommend products we would buy for our own yards. Affiliate relationships never determine our verdicts.
Display advertising
This site may display ads served through an ad network (currently set up for Mediavine Journey). These ads are how the site earns revenue from readers who never click a product link. We don't control which specific ads appear, but we choose networks with standards against deceptive or predatory advertising, and we keep ad placements from interfering with reading.
Sponsored content
If we ever publish a sponsored post or accept a sponsored newsletter placement, it will be clearly labeled as sponsored at the top of the content — and we'll only accept sponsorships for products we'd recommend unpaid.
Digital products
We may sell our own low-cost guides (such as a seasonal lawn calendar or a lawn-revival workbook). These are our own products, priced to be genuinely useful rather than premium courses — if a guide doesn't save you visible money or time, we don't want your money for it.
Questions?
If you have questions about how we make money, or you spot something on the site that feels like it conflicts with this policy, we want to hear about it. Contact us at hello@lawncraft.example and a human will reply.
Last updated: September 27, 2026.