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.
7 days free. No card needed. Cancel anytime. Join 40,000+ Southern growers.
The masterclass, members-only videos, and a plan for your exact zone. 7 days free, no card needed.
You have tried to grow food here before. The South fought back.
You planted what the books said. Half of it died in the heat. The trees that lived never made fruit. Every guide you found was written for a place that gets a real winter and an easy summer, not Florida sun and a surprise February freeze.
It is not you. You were handed the wrong map.
Growing food in the South runs on different rules. Different plants. Different timing. Different frost math. Different soil. Get those right and your yard feeds you. Get them wrong and you lose another five years to trees that were never going to make it.
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 AI Garden Coach
Snap a photo of a sick plant and know what is wrong in seconds. Ask anything, day or night, and get answers built for Southern dirt.
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 ledger, frost alerts for your county, and a straight answer on what to plant next, every month of the year.
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. From a certified 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.
The Grower Circle
A private room of Southern growers trading wins, questions, and photos every day. 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 Annual.
The tour is free, no account needed. The trial is 7 days, no card needed.
Three steps to a yard that feeds you.
Get your plan
Tell us your zone and your space. Get a year one plan built for your county, with frost dates and planting windows that match where you live.
Grow with a guide
Work through the masterclass at your pace. Ask questions any time. Snap a photo of a sick plant and get a straight answer on what is wrong and how to fix it.
Track it and stick with it
Log every harvest. Watch your grocery savings stack up season after season. Earn your grower credential as you finish the work.
Built by someone who actually grows here.
Jermaine Jefferson built GrowFitFL on a quarter acre in West Central Florida, Zone 10a. Eleven years of discipline as a certified personal trainer, turned toward growing real food. Today 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 in print. More than 40,000 growers following the work. 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 Hub 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.
Follow the Channel on YouTubeThe Hub is where the growing happens.
One membership holds the whole system. The plan for your county, the masterclass, plant help when you need it, and a room full of Southern growers doing the work with you.
Join the Hub
$49 a month, or $499 a year
- The AI Garden Coach, on call day and night
- Every garden tool, plus Module 1 of the masterclass
- The full 16-module masterclass, included with Annual
- A year one plan for your exact zone
- The Apothecary, Movement Training, and the Recipe Library
- Harvest log, the GFC-1 credential path, and the private Grower Circle
- Go annual and three signed books ship to your door, free
The 2026 Founding Class is capped at 50 members. Join now and this rate is locked for life.
Start My 7-Day Free Trial7 days free. No card needed. Try the whole Hub before you pay a dime.
All members only videos are now on the GrowFitFL Members Hub
Toni and I film videos that never touch YouTube. Private masterclasses, unfiltered conversations, and full grow guides, made just for Hub members. Here is a taste of what is waiting inside.
Members OnlyI Said What I Said: The GMO Conversation I Couldn't Have on YouTube
Members OnlyHow to Grow Strawberries: Masterclass with Toni
Members OnlyInside Florida's Citrus Revival: Members Only AccessGet the Southern Planting Calendar
Not ready to join the Hub 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. Join 40,000+ Southern growers. No spam, unsubscribe anytime.
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, $29.95View signed edition →
Top SellerThe Florida Perennial GardenSigned, $26.95View signed edition →
By ToniThe Florida Grow ListSigned, $35.00View signed edition →
MindsetDisciplineSigned, $21.95View signed edition →Prefer Amazon? Every title is there too: Grow Food NOT Lawns · The Florida Perennial Garden · The Florida Grow List · Discipline
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.
7 days free, no card needed, cancel anytime. Founding Class spots still open.
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