Book overview
What if your yard could feed your family?
I am Jermaine Jefferson. Husband, father of four, former certified personal trainer, and creator of the GrowFitFL YouTube channel. In one devastating year I lost four close family members, including my father. That season forced a hard truth on me: if I did not take control of my family's health, nobody was coming to do it for me. So I tore out grass and planted food. This book is everything I learned.
WRITTEN FOR FLORIDA AND WARM-CLIMATE GARDENERS: I grow in West Central Florida, and this book is built for zones 9b through 11. Tropical and subtropical climates. Heat, humidity, sugar sand, and summer rain. If you garden in Florida, the Gulf Coast's warmest zones, or the islands, this was written for you. If you garden in a colder zone, this playbook will not match your seasons, and I want you to know that before you buy.
Inside you will learn:
- How to turn any patch of lawn into a producing garden, step by step, even if you have never grown a thing
- How to build living soil in sand that eats compost for breakfast
- What to plant so something is ready to harvest every month of the year
- Simple systems that keep producing when work and kids leave you no time
- Why your garden, your health, and your habits rise and fall together
This revised and expanded edition is 304 pages, rebuilt from years of real growing. Every method in it has been tested in my own backyard, on camera, in front of thousands of viewers. Nothing in here is theory.
Why I wrote it: I am an independent author. This book is written and published by my own family company in Florida. No publisher took a cut and no publisher told me what to say. My wife Toni and I share our entire garden on YouTube at GrowFitFL and RootedinJs because we believe every family deserves to know how to feed itself. Buying this book funds that mission and helps us change one more backyard.
Your lawn feeds nobody. Your garden can feed everyone you love.
Start where you are. Start small. Start with one seed.
