How We Create Our Content

Nature keeps a calendar; we help you read it. That only works if you can trust the calendar, so here is exactly how these pages are made.

Research and drafting are AI-assisted

We use AI tools to gather source material, organize timing data, and produce first drafts. We are telling you this plainly because a site about when things happen is only as good as its honesty about how it knows.

A named human reviews every article before it publishes

No article goes live on an AI draft alone. A real person, named on the page, checks every date, every range, and every claim against the primary sources before publishing, and is accountable for it. The reviewer’s name, location, and growing zone appear on each article so you know who stood behind it.

Where our timing numbers come from

Every frost date, planting window, and life-cycle range traces to a named authority, cited in the article by name:

• Frost and freeze dates: NOAA/NWS 1991-2020 Climate Normals.
• Growing zones: the 2023 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map.
• Lawn, yard, and pest timing: university extension programs, named per article.

When we give a number, we tell you which station or which extension program it came from, and we date when we last checked it.

What we will not do

We answer when, not how to fix and not how to consume. We do not tell you whether a plant, seed, or berry is safe to eat. We do not give medical, chemical, or safety instructions. If a question needs a doctor, a poison-control center, a licensed applicator, or your local extension office, we say so and send you there. A timing site that pretended to be more than that would be doing you a disservice.

When we are wrong

We will be, sometimes. Dates shift, sources update, and a station’s normal is not your backyard. Our corrections page logs what we changed and when. If you spot an error, tell us and we will fix it and record it.