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Terms, credits & licences
Plain words about who owns what, what you are welcome to do, and who deserves a thank-you. Questions or permission requests: use the contact email at the bottom of any page.
Who owns the orchard's work
© 2026 Sean Priest · Irie Orchard. The original writing, plant guides, photographs, illustrations, shop and printable designs, page layouts and code on this site are protected by copyright. All rights are reserved except what is allowed below. "Irie Orchard" and the orchard logo identify this website and its products; please don't use them in a way that suggests you are the orchard or that it endorses you.
What you are welcome to do
- Use the site and app for free, for yourself, your family, your class or your club.
- Share a link to any page. Sharing is always welcome.
- Print the free printables for personal, classroom, club, library or community-garden use. Keep the small copyright line at the bottom of the page.
- Quote a short passage with credit and a link back to irieorchard.com.
What needs written permission
- Selling, or giving away as part of something you sell, any printable, design, photo, guide text or data from this site.
- Copying the site, the guides or the plant data set, or building a competing app from them.
- Putting the shop designs on products of your own.
- Scraping the site in bulk or using it to train other software.
Ask first. A friendly note usually gets a friendly yes.
What you send us
If you submit a story, a photo link, a plant suggestion or a yard to share, you keep ownership of it. By sending it you give the orchard permission to read it and, once Sean approves it, to publish it on this site with the name and place you typed. A published story may also be featured in the weekly Irie Award, with the same name, place and title. Only send what you wrote or took yourself, and nothing that belongs to somebody else or shows people who haven't agreed. Ask any time and it will be removed.
Guidance, not advice
Planting, harvest, pest, wildlife and foraging guidance is general. Conditions differ by yard and year; check with your local extension office before acting. Historical and traditional plant uses, including Indigenous and Ayurvedic ones, are shared as traditional use, not medical advice. Don't eat a wild plant you can't identify with certainty.
Shop
Items shown in the shop are marked "interest" until they go on sale. Nothing is for sale yet. When items go live, checkout, payment, shipping and returns will be handled by the print or fulfilment partner's own checkout, under its terms, and the orchard will say so on the item before you pay. This site never sees card details.
Takedowns and corrections
If you believe something here uses your work without permission, or is wrong, please email the contact address with the page and what you'd like done. We will respond and remove or credit it promptly.
Credits and licences
This site stands on other people's generosity. Thank you.
- Fonts. Barlow Condensed, Fraunces, Public Sans and Source Serif 4, used under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and served from this site. The licence texts are in the fonts folder. The Irie Orchard wordmark lettering is drawn from IM Fell English by Igino Marini, also under the SIL Open Font License.
- Weather and rain data. Weather data by Open-Meteo.com, licensed CC BY 4.0.
- Sightings and range maps. Observations from iNaturalist and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Each observation belongs to the people who recorded it and carries the licence they chose.
- Plant photos. Photographs from Wikimedia Commons under CC0, CC BY, CC BY-SA or public-domain terms, each credited to its photographer with its licence on the plant’s page.
- Pest timing. USA National Phenology Network (usanpn.org).
- Drought. U.S. Drought Monitor, produced by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with USDA and NOAA.
- Soil. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Soil Data Access (US public data).
- Weather alerts. US National Weather Service and Environment Canada.
- Aerial photos. Esri World Imagery, shown with Esri and its data providers' attribution when you turn it on.
- Plant summaries. Short summaries may come from Wikipedia and are available under CC BY-SA; each links back to its page.
- Wild fruit map. The "Beyond the fence" link opens Falling Fruit, a community map of public fruit and forage; nothing is copied from it.
- Research links. Links to PubMed (US National Library of Medicine) open its own search; no text is copied from it.
- Place look-ups. Zippopotam.us, phzmapi.org, BigDataCloud and OpenStreetMap Nominatim, used only to turn a ZIP, town or address into a map point and a growing zone, or a map point into a town name. Address search data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License.
- AI growers and their photos. The gardeners are invented AI characters made with Claude, an AI assistant from Anthropic. They and their imagined lots are fiction: their looks, clothing, greetings and culture notes are simplified and do not represent any real person, people or culture. Plant and culture notes are general background, not expert, medical or legal advice. Their photos come from Wikimedia Commons and iNaturalist under CC0, CC BY, CC BY-SA or public-domain licences, each credited to its photographer on the page where it appears. Pictures of their imagined gardens are plans drawn in the site’s own yard designer and labelled as such. The weekly Compost Crown and its judges are part of the same fiction.
- Voice. The almanac tone takes its cue from Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac (1949). No text is copied from it.
- Names. Product, company and service names belong to their owners and appear only to say what they are. The orchard is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.
Last updated November 2026. This page is written in plain language and is not legal advice.