Terms of Service

You must be at least 18 years old and able to enter into a binding contract under the laws of your state or country to use the Service. If you are accessing the Service on behalf of a business, you represent that you have authority to bind that business to these Terms.

You are responsible for keeping your login credentials confidential and for all activity that occurs under your account. Notify us immediately at contact@growfitfl.com if you believe your account has been accessed without your permission. You are responsible for keeping your contact information and billing details up to date.

You may not share your login with anyone, transfer your account, or sell access to your account. One account, one user.

The Plan is offered on one subscription plan. The Grower's Year is one hundred ninety-nine dollars per year. Prices are in U.S. dollars and may be changed by us with thirty days' notice to active members.

New members may start The Grower's Year with a seven day free trial. A valid payment card is required at checkout and nothing is charged during those seven days. At the end of day seven your card is charged the annual fee unless you cancel before the trial ends.

Subscriptions are processed by our payment provider, Stripe. By subscribing, you authorize us and Stripe to charge your chosen payment method on a recurring basis until you cancel. The Grower's Year is sold on an annual term only and is charged once a year.

Subscriptions automatically renew at the end of each term unless you cancel before the renewal date. You can cancel at any time from your account settings or by contacting us at contact@growfitfl.com.

We also offer the Backyard Coaching Program. It is sold by application only. It is a one-time purchase, it is not a subscription, and it does not auto-renew. It is offered in three packages. Backyard Coaching is twelve thousand seven hundred fifty dollars. Coaching plus On-Site Visit is nineteen thousand six hundred eighty dollars. The Complete Package is thirty-eight thousand six hundred dollars. Every package includes personalized coaching services (one private recorded yard review video, a written Game Plan, sixteen weeks of Coaching Concierge access with two follow-up video credits), twelve months of membership, and three printed books shipped at no additional cost. The two higher packages add one on-site visit, and The Complete Package also adds twelve monthly calls across a full year. The included twelve months of membership does not automatically convert into a paid subscription when it ends. Delivery timelines: the full yard review video is delivered within seven business days of a completed intake, and follow-up videos within three business days of the request. Coaching content is educational guidance for home gardening and is not a professional landscaping, horticultural consulting, or medical service.

Seasonal challenges, including the Fall Garden Kickoff Challenge, are included in The Grower's Year at no extra cost. They are not sold separately, so there is no separate challenge purchase, term, or renewal. Access to a seasonal challenge, to the Plan's members-only video library, and to The Southern Grow Guide plant reference continues only for so long as your membership remains active. It is not a permanent license, a download right, or a right of ownership in any video or in any part of the plant reference. The Grow Guide is proprietary content and is subject to the same restrictions on copying, redistribution, scraping, bulk extraction, and use as machine learning or artificial intelligence training data set out in Section 6.

The Grower's Year includes a fourteen day refund window from the date of your first annual charge. If you request a refund within those fourteen days, we will refund the full annual fee. After fourteen days, the annual term is non-refundable, but you keep access through the end of the paid year and are not charged again unless you renew. If you cancel during the seven day free trial, no charge is made and there is nothing to refund.

The Backyard Coaching Program is sold in three packages: twelve thousand seven hundred fifty dollars for Backyard Coaching, nineteen thousand six hundred eighty dollars for Coaching plus On-Site Visit, and thirty-eight thousand six hundred dollars for The Complete Package. The coaching term is sixteen weeks. Backyard Coaching Program purchases are refundable in full within seven days of purchase, but only if the coaching intake form has not been submitted. Submitting the intake form begins the personalized work and makes the purchase final and non-refundable, even within the seven day window. The Annual plan's fourteen day guarantee does not apply to the coaching program or to the twelve months of membership included with it. Books ship only after intake is submitted and are not returnable or refundable once shipped.

Seasonal challenges, including the Fall Garden Kickoff Challenge, are included in The Grower's Year. They are not sold separately, so there is no separate challenge payment, no separate challenge guarantee, and no upgrade credit. The fourteen day guarantee above applies to the membership that includes them.

GFC-Pro is a one-time purchase and is refundable in full within fourteen days of purchase, and only if the Pro track has not been started. Opening a Pro lesson, submitting an assessment or a practice video, or attempting a Pro knowledge check starts the Pro track and makes the purchase final, even inside the fourteen days. The twelve months of membership included with GFC-Pro are part of the one-time purchase and are not refundable separately or prorated.

To request a refund, contact contact@growfitfl.com with your account email and reason for the request.

GFC-1 is a private certificate of completion issued by GrowFitFL, LLC to members who complete the full The Southern Garden Plan masterclass curriculum. Detailed terms covering what the credential is and is not, and the public registry, are available on our GFC-1 program page.

In summary:

GFC-1 is a private credential. It is not a government license, accredited credential, or professional certification.

Completion of GFC-1 does not qualify holders to provide licensed professional services in any jurisdiction.

We reserve the right to modify the GFC-1 curriculum, standards, and registry policies at our discretion.

We reserve the right to revoke the GFC-1 credential from any holder who violates these Terms, misrepresents the credential, or engages in conduct that brings GrowFitFL or the Plan community into disrepute. Revocation removes the holder from the public registry.

GFC-Pro. GFC-Pro, GrowFitFL Certified Garden Professional, is a one-time purchase of four hundred ninety-nine dollars. It is not a subscription and it does not auto-renew.

What is included. The Pro track: five Pro modules of thirty lessons with their knowledge checks, and six assessed stages, being a written garden assessment of a real yard, a simulated client consultation, three practice teaching submissions, a business build, and a launch plan. Also included: the AI mentor, the Pro Desk support channel, a certificate, a badge, a public verification page, a listing on the public GrowFitFL directory, and twelve months of The Grower's Year membership. The membership portion opens on the day of purchase. It does not convert into a paid subscription when it ends. Pro lessons and features are released as they are completed, and we may add to them.

How your work is assessed. Submissions are reviewed by an automated system against the written rubric published inside the program. Attempts are unlimited and there is no additional charge to submit again. Where the automated reviewer is not confident, where the evidence can be read more than one way, or where you tell us you believe a result is wrong, a person at GrowFitFL reviews the submission and answers you directly. You may request that human review at any time. Automated review is an educational assessment. It is not professional supervision, and it does not certify your competence to any third party.

Verification and listing are two different things. Your certificate and your public verification page are permanent. They read your credential record and stay available whether or not you hold a membership, so a client can confirm your credential at any time. Your listing on the public GrowFitFL directory is promotional, and it requires an active The Grower's Year membership. If your membership lapses the listing is paused and is restored when you renew. A lapse deletes nothing. Only revocation removes a credential and its listing.

Your public listing and your information. If you complete the program we publish a profile that may include your name or business name, your city, state and country, your photograph, a short biography, the services you list, and links you give us to your website, shop and social accounts. That profile is public. It may be indexed by search engines and shown in GrowFitFL content, emails and videos. You choose what goes in it, you can edit it at any time, and you can ask us to remove it by writing to contact@growfitfl.com. Removing your listing does not revoke your credential and does not remove your verification page.

No guarantee of income, clients, or results. GFC-Pro is an education and credentialing program. We do not guarantee that you will earn any amount of money, obtain any client, build a profitable business, or reach any particular outcome. Any figures, examples, or case studies in our materials are illustrations only. They are not promises, and they are not typical results. What you get out of this depends on your own effort, skill, market and circumstances. You are responsible for your own business decisions and for meeting every licensing, insurance, permitting, tax and other legal requirement that applies where you work. Nothing in this program is legal, tax, insurance, or professional business advice.

What the credential is and is not. GFC-Pro is a private credential issued by GrowFitFL, LLC. It certifies that the holder completed the GrowFitFL method and met the published standard on every stage of the program. It is not a horticulture degree, a state license, a Master Gardener credential, a government license, an accredited credential, or a professional certification, and it does not qualify the holder to provide licensed professional services in any jurisdiction. Holders may state that they trained with GrowFitFL and hold GFC-Pro. Holders may not state or imply that GrowFitFL licenses, accredits, employs, insures, or endorses their business, and may not use the GrowFitFL name or marks beyond the badge and listing we provide.

Refunds, changes and revocation. GFC-Pro is refundable in full within fourteen days of purchase, and only if the Pro track has not been started. Opening a Pro lesson, submitting an assessment or a practice video, or attempting a Pro knowledge check starts the Pro track and makes the purchase final. We may modify the GFC-Pro curriculum, standards, rubrics and listing policies. We may revoke the credential and remove the listing from any holder who violates these Terms or misrepresents the credential. Where we revoke a credential we will tell the holder in writing and say why.

All content inside the Plan, including but not limited to videos, written lessons, plant database entries, recipes, articles, downloadable PDFs, graphics, Ask the Grow Guide, the Plant Doctor, the trackers, software, design, layout, and any other material we provide, is owned by GrowFitFL, LLC or licensed to us, and is protected by United States and international copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws.

You receive a limited, personal, non-transferable, non-exclusive license to access the content for your own use during the term of your active membership. You may not copy, reproduce, distribute, publish, sell, sublicense, or share the content with any non-member; record, screen-capture, screenshot, or otherwise duplicate the content for distribution; use the content to create competing courses, materials, or services; or use any GrowFitFL trademark, the GFC-1 mark, the GrowFitFL name, or any GrowFitFL logo in your own marketing, products, or services without our prior written permission.

Members-Only Video Content. Certain videos are designated members-only and are made available exclusively inside the Plan to members for the term of their membership. Members-only videos are private, unlisted works. They are not part of our public YouTube channel, they are not published to any public platform, and no public license of any kind applies to them. Nothing about the technical method used to deliver a members-only video inside the Plan, including any embedded or unlisted player, grants you any right beyond viewing that video inside the Plan while your entitlement is active.

With respect to members-only videos, you specifically may not: download, capture, rip, mirror, or otherwise create a copy of any video or any portion of it; screen-record, screenshot, or re-film a video by any means; re-upload, re-post, stream, or otherwise transmit a video or any clip, still frame, or excerpt of it to YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, Reddit, Telegram, WhatsApp, a messaging group, a file-sharing service, a cloud drive, a personal or commercial website, or any other platform or service; share, forward, or resell a video link, player URL, video identifier, or access credential to any person who is not an entitled member; display a video publicly, or at any group, commercial, educational, or organizational gathering; or use a video, in whole or in part, to create derivative works, training materials, datasets, machine learning or artificial intelligence training corpora, or competing products or services.

Enforcement. We monitor for unauthorized distribution of members-only content. If we determine that you have distributed, published, or otherwise made members-only content available outside the Plan, we may, at our sole discretion and without prior notice: suspend or permanently terminate your account and all associated entitlements without refund of any amount paid; revoke any GFC-1 credential you hold and remove you from the public registry; issue takedown notices under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to any platform hosting the material, and pursue removal of your account on that platform for repeat infringement; and pursue any civil or criminal remedy available to us, including claims for statutory damages, actual damages, injunctive relief, and recovery of attorneys' fees and costs to the extent permitted by law. These remedies are cumulative and are in addition to every other right we have at law or in equity. Our decision not to act on a particular violation is not a waiver of our right to act on that violation or any other.

Any content you post in the Plan community (comments, photos, garden journals, posts) remains your property. By posting it, you grant GrowFitFL a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual license to use, display, reproduce, and adapt the content in connection with operating and promoting the Plan.

Some photographs on the Service, including plant photographs in the Southern Grow Guide, are licensed stock imagery from third-party providers such as Pexels and are not owned by GrowFitFL, LLC. Those images are provided for illustration only. A photograph shown alongside a plant entry represents the species or a typical example of it and should not be relied on to identify a specific cultivar, variety, rootstock, or individual plant, and it is not a representation of any plant offered for sale by us or by any nursery. Always confirm plant identity with the nursery or supplier before purchasing, and confirm edibility and safety from a qualified source before consuming any plant. You may not extract, download, or redistribute stock imagery from the Service; your license to the content does not extend to those third-party images beyond viewing them as part of the Service.

The Plan includes a member community. By participating, you agree not to post or share content that is illegal, harassing, threatening, defamatory, hateful, sexually explicit, or otherwise harmful; share other members' personal information without their consent; impersonate any other person or misrepresent your identity; use the community for spam, multi-level-marketing recruitment, or unauthorized commercial solicitation; or attempt to access content, accounts, or systems you are not authorized to access.

We reserve the right to remove any content and to suspend or terminate any account that violates these conduct rules.

The information provided through the Plan is educational. It is based on the experience of the instructor and on widely available horticultural resources. It is not a substitute for professional advice in matters of land use, food safety, agricultural commerce, pest control, business, finance, legal compliance, or any other regulated activity.

Results from applying the techniques taught will vary based on climate, soil, site conditions, member effort, weather, and many factors outside of our control. We do not guarantee any specific gardening, financial, business, or health outcome from membership or completion of the training.

You are responsible for verifying the legality of any practice you apply on your own property in your own jurisdiction, including local zoning, HOA rules, pesticide regulations, water use restrictions, and any other applicable laws.

The Plan includes The Apothecary, a library of herbal tea recipes, traditional-use information, and growing guides provided for educational purposes only. This content is not medical advice. Before first access, each member must affirm an acknowledgment of this, which we record with the member's account, date, time, and notice version. By using The Apothecary you assume full responsibility for your decisions about growing, identifying, preparing, and consuming any plant or preparation, including checking for interactions with your medications and conditions with a qualified healthcare provider. To the maximum extent permitted by law, GrowFitFL, LLC disclaims liability for adverse reactions, allergies, medication interactions, plant misidentification, and improper preparation arising from use of this educational content.

Some content discusses food production, food preservation, herbal uses of plants, and dietary practices. This content is for general educational purposes only. It is not medical advice and is not a substitute for consultation with a licensed medical professional. Before changing your diet, foraging or consuming any plant, applying any home preservation technique, or applying any pest control practice, consult appropriate qualified professionals.

The Plan may contain links to third party websites, products, or services, including but not limited to Amazon (through our Amazon Associates affiliate participation), Patreon, Stripe, and YouTube. We are not responsible for the content, terms, or practices of any third party. Your use of any third party service is governed by that third party's terms.

We participate in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. As an Amazon Associate, GrowFitFL earns from qualifying purchases made through links on our site. This does not change the price you pay.

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service at any time, with or without notice, for any violation of these Terms, for non-payment, for harmful conduct toward our staff or other members, or for any other reason permitted by law.

You may terminate your membership at any time by canceling your subscription. Termination does not entitle you to a refund except as expressly stated in Section 4.

Upon termination, your access to the Service ends, your GFC-1 credential may be revoked at our discretion if you are credentialed and your conduct caused the termination, and any license to content granted in Section 6 ends. Your obligations under Section 6 concerning members-only content survive termination and continue to bind you after your access ends.

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless GrowFitFL, LLC, its owners, officers, employees, contractors, and agents from any claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from your use of the Service, your violation of these Terms, your violation of any third party right, or your violation of any law.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, without regard to its conflict of laws principles.

Any dispute arising from or related to these Terms or the Service that the parties cannot resolve through good faith discussion will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules. The arbitration will take place in the State of Florida, or by remote means as permitted by the rules. Each party will bear its own attorneys' fees and costs, except as otherwise provided by the arbitrator or by applicable law.

You and GrowFitFL agree that any arbitration or court proceeding will be conducted on an individual basis only, and not as a class action, collective action, or representative action. To the extent permitted by law, you and GrowFitFL waive the right to a jury trial and the right to participate in any class or collective action.

If any provision of this Section 16 is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in effect, and the unenforceable provision will be replaced with an enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original.

We may update these Terms from time to time. When we make material changes, we will notify active members by email and update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page. Your continued use of the Service after the effective date of any change constitutes your acceptance of the updated Terms.

Our collection and use of your personal information is governed by our Privacy Policy at members.growfitfl.com/privacy. Please review it to understand our practices.

If any provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in effect, and the unenforceable provision will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable while preserving its original intent.

These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy and any other policies we publish on the Service, constitute the entire agreement between you and GrowFitFL regarding the Service and supersede any prior agreements or communications.