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West Central Florida  ·  Zone 10a

JERMAINEJEFFERSON

Building a life around health, freedom, discipline and self reliance.

I grow food, train, write books and build businesses out of a backyard in West Central Florida. Seventy plus fruit trees, three books, one channel, and a wife who is every bit as stubborn about it as I am. When the work is done we go see the world, then come home and put more in the ground.

Jermaine Jefferson in a hibiscus print shirt with a blue and gold macaw perched on his shoulder
It's better to be a warrior in a garden, than a gardener in a war.

On camera

Watch my work.

Two long videos a week out of the food forest. Friday and Sunday, every week, freeze or heat.

Always the newest upload. It updates itself the second I publish.

Friday

What to plant right now

Seasonal, regional, urgent. The video that brings strangers in.

Sunday

The definitive guide

Evergreen deep dives on the plants I own. The video that turns a stranger into a regular.

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Lately

Life.

The yard, the water, the road, race day. Same man in all of them.

January on the sand
January on the sand
In Aruba, relaxing
In Aruba, relaxing
Race day
Race day
Rome
Rome
Iceland
Iceland
35,000 feet up, always writing
35,000 feet up, always writing

“Grow what you can, use the body, love people, and give back. I’ve spent 25 years figuring out how, and I’m not keeping it to myself.”

Jermaine Jefferson

If you came here to grow food

Join me inside.

This one is for the growers. If that is not you, skip it, there is another door further down.

Go read the ingredient label on most of what passes for food now. I am not going to stand up here and preach about it. I just got tired of arguing and started growing my own.

Here is the honest reason. I want as many healthy years as I can get with my wife and my family. The garden is a big piece of how I believe that happens.

We all owe it to ourselves not to end up a burden on the people we love. Be the one solving problems for them instead. That is the whole idea behind this.

  • Member only video library
  • The full Masterclass
  • Planting tools and calendars
  • The Grower Circle community
  • Direct member messaging
  • Three books shipped to your door

Seven day trial. Card required to start, cancel any time before day seven and pay nothing.

For everything that is not the garden

My Patreon.

Not everybody who finds me is here to grow food. Some of you came for the training. Some for the discipline talk, or the travel, or the faith, or just because we seem to think alike. For a long time I did not have a good place to put you. Now I do.

Patreon is where the rest of my life lives. There is already a pile of content sitting in there and you are going to enjoy digging through it.

Over the coming months I am building it into something that is actually fun to be part of. Help across more than one corner of your life, not just the yard. More common sense living. Less noise. Quality over quantity, the way things used to be made.

If the garden is what you came for, the Club is your door. If you are here for everything else, this one is yours.

Come see what is in there

Free to read

The worst meal I ever had.

The story that opens my book Discipline. Daytona Beach, $400 to my name, a $160 check I could not afford, and the stranger who sat down at my table. The whole thing, free.

Read the story