Podcast Requests
Have Jermaine and Toni on your show
We are easy guests. We show up on time, we bring stories instead of a sales pitch, and we answer the question you actually asked. Tell us about your show and we will tell you straight whether we are a fit.
Send Your InvitationWho you are getting
I am Jermaine. I spent twelve years as a certified personal trainer telling people to eat better, and it took me years to admit the honest part: the food itself was the problem, not their willpower. So I tore out the lawn and started growing it.
Eleven years later my yard in West Central Florida feeds my family. My wife Toni runs her own channel, RootedinJs, and grows right alongside me on the same property. We have burned through more dead plants, wasted money and bad advice than we care to admit, and we will tell your audience about all of it.
Neither one of us is a professor. We are two parents who learned this the hard way and now teach it plain. Put us on and your audience gets a real conversation, a few laughs, and something they can go do in their own backyard this weekend.
We have one rule as guests. Nobody leaves the episode entertained and empty handed. Everybody walks away with one thing they can plant.
What we are good on
Pick an angle, or send us yours. We will prep to it.
Grow Food NOT Lawns
Why the American lawn is the most expensive crop nobody eats, and what happens when a family swaps it for food.
Food as medicine
Moringa, leaf of life, elderberry, papaya. What grows in a Southern yard, what it does, and how to use it without getting reckless.
Food security for regular people
No ten acres, no big budget. What one family can realistically produce, and where to start when money is tight.
The fitness to food pivot
Twelve years training people, and the day the whole approach stopped adding up. Good for health, fitness and mindset shows.
Doing it as a couple
Two channels, one property, four kids. How we split the work, where we disagree, and what running a family business really costs.
Discipline
Jermaine's book, Discipline: What Nobody Wants to Hear. Consistency, early mornings, and doing the work when nobody claps.
Choose your guest
Book either one of us, or both. Together is our favorite, because we finish each other's stories and disagree in public, which makes for better tape.
Jermaine Jefferson
Founder of GrowFitFL. Author of Grow Food NOT Lawns, The Florida Perennial Garden, and Discipline: What Nobody Wants to Hear.
- Eleven years growing food in Zone 10a
- Twelve years as a certified personal trainer
- Strong on food forests, perennials, medicinal plants, self sufficiency and discipline
Toni Jefferson
Creator of RootedinJs. Author of The Florida Grow List.
- Grows alongside Jermaine on the same property
- Speaks straight to beginners, women and families who want to start and not quit
- Strong on small spaces, kitchen use, feeding a family and keeping a garden alive through real life
Easy to work with
We come prepared
Send your questions ahead and we will actually read them. No canned answers, no dodging the hard one.
Good audio and video
Wired mic, hard line, clean background. We can also shoot from the food forest if you want the visual.
We promote it
Every episode goes out to our email list and both channels. Your show gets the traffic, not just us.
No pitch fest
We will mention the books if you ask. If you do not ask, we will not bring them up.
Remote or in person
Riverside, Zoom, StreamYard, SquadCast, whatever you run. In person works if you are within reach of Central Florida.
We show up
On time, in the green room early, and we do not cancel on you the week of.
Tell us about your show
The more real detail you give us, the faster we can say yes. We read every one of these ourselves.
Got it, thank you
Your invitation is in front of us now. If it is a fit you will hear back within 3 business days, and we will come ready to work.
In the meantime, here is what we do all day.
What happens after you hit send
We read it, not a bot
It comes straight to us. Within 3 business days you get a real answer, yes or no, and we will tell you why either way.
We lock the date and prep
You send your questions or your outline. We read them and come with real answers, not talking points.
We push it out
Headshots, bio and links before we record. After it airs, it goes to our email list and both channels.
Grow Food NOT Lawns
That is the whole message, and we will bring it to your audience the same way we bring it to ours. Plain, honest and useful. Send the invitation and let us see if the date works.
Send Your Invitation