Media
Working with Jermaine and Toni
Stages, microphones, cameras and press. Everything a host, producer or event organizer needs is on this page. Pick the door that matches what you are asking for.
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Speaking Requests
Conferences, garden clubs, master gardener programs, churches, schools, extension offices, corporate wellness days and festivals. Keynotes, workshops, panels and virtual sessions.
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Have Jermaine, Toni, or both of us on your show. Remote or in person, video or audio only. Send the show details and we will answer within 3 business days.
Send a podcast requestWho you are booking
Short bios you are welcome to use in your program, your show notes or your promo.
Jermaine Jefferson
Jermaine Jefferson is the founder of GrowFitFL and a former certified personal trainer of twelve years who traded the gym floor for a food forest. He has spent eleven years growing food in Zone 10a in West Central Florida and teaches Southern growers how to turn a lawn into something that feeds a family. He is the author of Grow Food NOT Lawns, The Florida Perennial Garden, and Discipline: What Nobody Wants to Hear.
Toni Jefferson
Toni Jefferson is the creator of RootedinJs and the author of The Florida Grow List. She grows alongside her husband Jermaine on the same Florida property and teaches beginners, women and families how to start a garden and actually keep it going through real life, small spaces and busy weeks.
What we cover
- Growing food in the South, heat, sand, humidity and hurricanes
- Food forests, perennials and tropical fruit for small yards
- Food as medicine, moringa, leaf of life, elderberry and papaya
- Food security and self sufficiency for people without land or a big budget
- The fitness to food pivot, and why willpower was never the problem
- Discipline, consistency and building something as a family
Headshots, approved bios and links go out as soon as a date is confirmed. For anything not covered by the two forms above, email contact@growfitfl.com.
Where to find our work
YouTube @GrowFitFL
Jermaine's channel. New long form videos every Friday and Sunday.
YouTube @RootedinJs
Toni's channel. Same property, different lens.
Daily garden posts and the community around them.
The Blog
Long form Southern gardening articles, updated through the season.
The Books
Four titles in print. Signed copies ship from this site.
The Southern Grower's Hub
The membership where the plans, guides and member videos live.