Grow Food That Feeds Your Family in the South
Food forest design born in Florida, built for the whole South. Real food, real climate, real results. I teach the way I live, on the same dirt I grow on.
The Grower's Year is $199 a year after the trial. A card is required to start. Cancel before day 7 and pay nothing.
Want to look first? Take the free guided tour.·Start the free course with no card.·Grab the free Planting Calendar.
We spent eleven years figuring out how to grow food down here. Now we hand you the whole thing.
A family of six on a quarter acre, over 150 edible plants, and eleven years of Florida sun teaching us what actually works. Toni and I learned it the slow way, one season at a time. Everything we found out is in one place now, so you get to skip the part where you guess.
Growing food in the South runs on its own rules. Different plants, different timing, different soil. Once you have the right calendar for your state and region, your yard has a fair chance to feed you.
- Your planting calendar. Built from published university extension guidance for Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and Louisiana, so you plant for your location and season.
- The Southern Grow Guide. 764 plant files written for the South, so you look a plant up instead of guessing whether it will make it here.
- The Grow Guide. Ask a question about the Plan or how to use the app and get a clear answer without digging through every screen.
- The Masterclass. 16 modules and 87 lessons that take you from one bed to a yard that feeds the house.
- Members videos. The ones Toni and I make for members and put nowhere else.
- Movement. A training app that comes with it, because we would rather you be strong enough to enjoy the yard you built.
- Direct Member Messaging, 48 hours. You send Toni and me a question with photos or video, and you hear back within 48 hours, Monday through Friday.
It gives you a direct way to reach us when the app alone is not enough.
Grow your groceries. Grow your health back.
The right map lives at members.growfitfl.com. It is not a course you finish and forget. It is the working system our family uses every day, and one login opens eight rooms.
The Grow Guide
Ask questions about the Plan and how to use the app, day or night, and get a clear next answer.
The Masterclass
16 modules that carry you from bare dirt to full harvest. Written for our heat, our sand, and our surprise February freezes.
Your Garden Tools
Planting calendar, harvest records, and a clear answer on what to plant next for your state, region, and season.
The Apothecary
39 herbal tea blends with a Southern growing guide for every herb in them. Grow what goes in your cup.
Movement Training
A weekly training plan built around your goal, your equipment, and your level, shaped by Jermaine's 12 years of experience as a personal trainer. Included with every plan.
The Recipe Library
Cook what you just picked. Real food matched to your harvest that tastes better than anything from the store.
Direct Member Messaging
Send Toni and me a question with photos or video. You hear back within 48 hours, Monday through Friday. No ads. No algorithm. No trolls.
GFC-1 Certification
Do the work, pass the exam, and earn a real grower credential listed on the public registry. Included with The Grower's Year.
The trial opens the Plan and requires a card. Cancel before day 7 and pay nothing. The guided tour takes an email and no card.
A clear plan. A real garden. One step at a time.
Build your starting plan
Choose your growing space, check its sunlight, identify your planting region, decide between beds and containers, build your first crop list, and gather what you need.
Put the right crops in the ground
Prepare your growing space and plant from the crop list matched to your state, region, and season. Start with what belongs in the ground where you live now.
Care for it and keep going
Use the masterclass and garden tools as the work changes. Record what you plant and harvest, then see the next useful step instead of starting over every week.
Built by someone who actually grows here.
Jermaine Jefferson built GrowFitFL on a quarter acre in West Central Florida, Zone 10a. Twelve years of discipline as a certified personal trainer, turned toward growing real food. Eleven growing seasons later, the food forest feeds his family of six year round.
His wife Toni grows on the same land. Four kids learning to grow before they learn to drive. Three books of his own in print, a fourth by Toni. The public channels show the work. The Plan organizes it for the people ready to build their own garden. This is the system he wished he had when he started.
Two years of showing up for Southern growers.
Hundreds of emails land in our inbox every month. Thousands of comments sit on the channel. The Plan is new, but the help is not. Here is a small handful, picked at random and shown word for word.
You are a regular guy, not just pushing products, who just wants to make people better and live better lives... your channel has helped me tremendously!
@beechmode6952 · YouTube
I have had a lot of failures because of not knowing when and what to plant in Florida. I can't tell you how helpful you and your wife have been.
@michelleknight5524 · YouTube
This is the first year that I feel I've actually started the garden in time. I started planting watermelon, Seminole squash, longevity spinach, pigeon pea, and a lot more last month and they are already looking great.
@Stingray727 · YouTube
I have been gardening in Florida over 30 years... You have helped me considerably with your information.
@SwampFox82ndABN · YouTube
You are both my favorite two channels on YouTube!! As a newer FL gardner you both have helped me so so much - thank you!!
@carflippincouple1766 · YouTube
It's real nice hearing someone talk Florida gardening like we actually live here.
@Palilia-g1d · YouTube
Comments shown word for word from the channel. Want to see why they stay? Come watch free.
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One membership holds the whole system. The planting calendar for your state and region, the masterclass, the Grow Guide, and Direct Member Messaging with a reply within 48 hours, Monday through Friday.
The Grower's Year
$199 a year
- The Grow Guide for Plan and app questions
- Every garden tool in the members area
- The full 16-module masterclass
- Every seasonal challenge, included
- A starting plan for your state, region, and growing space
- The Apothecary, Movement Training, and the Recipe Library
- Harvest log, the GFC-1 credential path, and What to Plant Next
- A printed copy of Grow Food NOT Lawns ships to your door, included.
7 days free with a card on file. A card is required to start. Cancel any time before day 7 and pay nothing. The Grower's Year carries a 14 day money back guarantee.
Want to peek first? Take the free tour.
Not ready to put a card down? Start the free course instead.
Get the Southern Planting Calendar
Not ready to join the Plan yet? Start here. 80+ crops, zone by zone planting windows, frost dates, and the crops that are nearly impossible to kill down here. The exact calendar I plant by, free.
Instant access. No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
Nobody leaves here empty handed.
Maybe the Plan is not your move right now. That is fine. Before you close this tab, pick one thing off this board. Every one of them is free, every one takes about two minutes, and every one of them puts more food in Southern yards.
Start hereStart the free courseThe Reason Why. Five lessons on what happened to our food and what you can do about it in your own yard. Free forever, no card, just an email so we can save your spot. Three printable guides come with it: The Southern Planting Sheet with 21 crops and planting months for North, Central and South, 30 Days to Growing Something, and The Seed Saving Starter.Start the Free CourseDid one? Good. The rest will still be here tomorrow.
The Books Behind the Food Forest
Every copy signed by hand. Shipped by our family, not a warehouse. Quantities stay small because we sign each one.
The ManifestoGrow Food NOT LawnsSigned, $33.95View signed edition →
Top SellerThe Florida Perennial GardenSigned, $29.95View signed edition →
By ToniThe Florida Grow ListSigned, $35.00View signed edition →
MindsetDisciplineSigned, $24.95View signed edition →Prefer Amazon? Every title is there too: Grow Food NOT Lawns · The Florida Perennial Garden · The Florida Grow List · Discipline
A printed copy of Grow Food NOT Lawns is included with The Grower's Year and shipped to your door. See what else comes with it →
A year from now, your yard is either feeding you or it is not.
Start today and next season you have trees in the ground, a harvest log filling up, and a plan that fits where you live. Wait, and it is another year of grocery runs and guessing. You were already watching the videos. You were already going to buy the books. For less than a few bags of groceries a month, you get the whole system and the people growing right beside you.
A card is required to start. Cancel before day 7 and pay nothing.
Want to look first? Take the free guided tour.
The tour takes an email and no card. The Grower's Year is $199 a year after the trial and carries a 14 day money back guarantee.
Grow Food NOT Lawns