You can grow food in Florida.Let me show you how.
Sandy soil, brutal heat, hurricane season, and a planting calendar that runs backwards from everywhere else. Florida is its own thing. I show families how to work with it instead of fighting it.
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Three ways to get growing
New to growing in Florida
Start with The Florida Grow List. The beginner's guide: 50+ plants that hold up in this climate, with the month to put each one in the ground.
Get the book TwoReady to build the whole yard
The Southern Grower's Hub, our membership with Jermaine. Planting calendars, a 16 module food forest masterclass, and a garden coach for zones 8 to 11.
See the Hub ThreeJust want to start somewhere free
Take the free Florida plant guide. It tells you what to plant this month and what to leave alone until fall. No card, just an email.
Get the free guideEverything I know, written down
The Florida Grow List
50+ plants that won't let you down, with planting windows for zones 8 through 11.
Grow Food Not Lawns
Jermaine's guide to turning any Southern yard into a year round garden, one bed at a time.
The Florida Gardening Bundle
Both books together, signed. The fastest way to get your whole yard producing.
Come walk the garden with me
The Florida Plant Guide
What to plant this month, what to skip, and the ten plants I'd hand a brand new gardener. Free, and it lands in your inbox in about a minute.
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Hey, I'm Toni.
Miami born, raised mostly by my grandmother in a Haitian household where somebody was always growing something. I didn't understand how big of a gift that was until I had my own yard.
Now my husband Jermaine and I grow food on a regular Florida lot with four kids running through it. Barbados cherry, guava, mango, fig, mulberry, loquat, longan, Surinam cherry, jaboticaba, miracle fruit, starfruit. The front yard is fully edible and yes, the neighbors ask questions.
I teach the way I wish somebody had taught me. Plain talk, real timelines, and permission to lose a few plants along the way.
People are eating out of their yards
I bought three mango trees before I found this channel and killed all three. Followed the Grow List instead and I just picked my first Barbados cherries.
My kids ask to go outside now. That alone was worth the book. The planting calendar is taped to my fridge.
Toni explains things like a cousin over the fence, not a textbook. First season and I have more callaloo than I know what to do with.
Work with Rooted in J's
If it isn't already growing in our yard or being used in our kitchen, we don't put our name on it.