Growing it and teaching it are two different skills.
You can be the best grower on your road and still leave somebody more confused than when they walked up. That is not a knowledge problem. Nobody ever taught you the second skill, because the second skill is its own trade.
Let's say six things are true for you right now.
You know exactly what to do in that bed. But when somebody asks you why, it comes out as a story instead of a lesson.
You film in the yard and the answer is in there somewhere. The viewer cannot find it, and the sun and the wind are fighting your camera.
Somebody asks you to come look at their yard. You go, you talk for an hour, and you both walk away without anything written down.
You would take the work, but you have never written down what the work is. So the price changes every time somebody asks.
You have no bio, no service list, no rate, and no page to send anybody to.
You have grown food for years and there is nothing anybody can check.
None of that is fixed by learning more about plants. It is fixed by learning how to teach, how to read a yard the same way twice, and how to put your own materials together. That is what this is.
Read both lists before you buy anything.
This is for you if
- You already grow food and people already ask you about it.
- You want to teach it, on camera, in a class, or standing in somebody's yard.
- You want one repeatable way to read a yard instead of a fresh guess every time.
- You want your own materials: a bio, a service list, a rate you can say out loud.
- You want a credential somebody can check, tied to work you actually did.
This is not for you if
- You are still learning to grow. Start with GrowFitFL Club and come back when the yard is feeding you.
- You want customers handed to you. This program does not do that and does not claim to.
- You want a horticulture degree, a state license, or Master Gardener. This is none of those.
- You want it finished this weekend. Six stages of real work take as long as they take.
Being new is not a knock. Everybody was. If that is you, start with GrowFitFL Club and grow first.
Eight finished things, all of them yours.
These are the things you complete. What the market does with them is up to the market, and nobody can promise you that part.
A teaching method
One way to teach a thing, that works in a class, on camera, or on a walk through somebody's beds.
A repeatable garden assessment
A written way to read a yard: sun, water, drainage, soil, what is already growing, what is wrong, what to do first.
A consultation structure
An hour with a stranger that has a shape to it, and ends with a plan on paper.
Organized outdoor lessons
Filming in bright sun and wind, with the plants readable and the lesson findable.
Professional creator materials
Your positioning, bio, service descriptions, welcome email, follow-up email and the rest, drafted for you to edit.
A public creator profile
Your photo, your links, your services, your county on our map.
A verification page
A public page with your name and certificate number that anybody can check.
The credential
GrowFitFL Certified Garden Professional, issued when the last stage is done.
Six stages. One assessed submission each, in order.
Every stage runs the same loop. Work the lesson, use the tool, send in the real thing, read the notes, send it again if it needs it. Each stage opens the next.
Foundation
The Masterclass first, then the Pro modules that teach you how to teach. A short knowledge check closes it.
Garden Assessment
You read a real yard and write it up with photos. It is scored against eight written criteria you can read before you start.
Consultation
You run a consultation with a practice client and get scored on the same things a real one would judge you on.
Teaching
Three short lessons on video: a class, a yard visit, and a piece to camera. Each one comes back with written notes.
Business Build
Your positioning, your services, your price, your words. The tools draft it and you edit it.
Launch
A ten-step checklist that takes you from certified to open, with the Pro Desk behind you.
Nobody fails GFC-Pro. You finish it.
You can read every rubric before you submit anything. The notes come back with what you did right, the one thing to add, and the lesson to look at. Not there yet, you add it and send it again. There is no limit and no extra charge. The standard does not move. The number of tries does not run out.
Everything here is built. The lessons and tools open the day you buy. The stages you earn in order.
Not a roadmap. If it is on this page it exists now. The Pro lessons, the tools, the AI mentor, the Pro Desk and the full Club membership open the hour your payment clears. The six assessed stages open one at a time: you submit the work for one, it is scored, and the next one opens. The certificate, the badge, the verification page and the map listing come at the end of the sixth stage. Anything still being built is not listed, on purpose.
The Pro Desk. Help when you need a second set of eyes.
Ask about your assessment, teaching content, or business setup. AI may offer an answer from program guidance first. You can always choose “Send it to Jermaine anyway.” When you send a question to Jermaine, he will review it and get back to you. This support is included with GFC-Pro.
The Pro track
- Five Pro modules, 30 published lessons, with the working tools built into the lessons: class plan builder, course outliner, visit sheet, pricing calculator, first ten tracker, content calendar, hook writer, website checklist
- The Garden Assessment, submitted with photos and scored against eight written criteria
- A practice client you run a full consultation with, scored on the same rubric
- Three teaching video submissions, each scored, each answered in writing
- The Business Command Center, which drafts twelve pieces of your copy for you to edit
- The ten-step launch checklist
- Your brand kit and the rules for using the badge without overclaiming
- An AI mentor that reads your own record and answers from where you actually are
- The Pro Desk: AI may offer a first answer from program guidance. You can send it to Jermaine anyway, and he will review it and get back to you
- The certificate, the badge, your public verification page, and your profile on the county map
GrowFitFL Club
- The 17-module Masterclass, the ground the Pro track stands on
- The GFC-1 growing-knowledge credential path, separate from the GFC-Pro teaching credential. Each has its own requirements; neither is awarded just for paying
- My Garden, your beds and your plants, day by day
- Ask the Grow Guide and the Plant Doctor, all year
- The Southern Grow Guide, plant files written for the South
- Every members-only video, mine and Toni's
- Direct Member Messaging with Jermaine and Toni
Count the finished pieces, not the lessons.
A lesson count tells you how long something is. This tells you what exists at the end that did not exist before.
- A written garden assessment of a real yard
- A consultation you have run end to end
- Three teaching plans and the videos that go with them
- An outdoor filming setup that handles sun and wind
- A public creator profile
- A media kit
- A rate card
- Service descriptions, a welcome email and a follow-up email
- A public verification page with your certificate number
It is built around teaching outdoors, in a Southern garden.
Most teacher training happens in a room. This one happens in the sun. The lessons deal with the things that actually go wrong out here: bright light blowing out the shot, wind chewing the microphone, a plant that reads as a green blur on camera, and a lesson that gets lost because you were talking while you were digging.
The rest of it is the trade. How to read a yard the same way twice. How to run an hour with a stranger and leave them with something on paper. What to write on a service list. How to say a price without flinching. And how to describe a credential without overclaiming it, which is its own lesson.
I have taught people for twenty years. Twelve of those as a certified personal trainer, and twenty growing, eleven of them growing food in zone 10a on a quarter acre in West Central Florida with over 150 edible plants on it and a family of six eating out of it. The teaching part is the part I know best. This is me handing you the way I do it.
One honest note on where this works. The method was built in West Central Florida for yards where summer is the hard season, any subtropical or tropical yard. The teaching craft travels anywhere at all. But the plant lists and the dates in the Masterclass are Florida and Gulf South specific, dated planting windows in the app cover Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Louisiana today, and outside those you translate to your own frost dates with the tools we give you.
What the certificate says, and what it does not.
This certifies you completed the GrowFitFL method and met the standard on every stage. It is not a horticulture degree, a state license, or a Master Gardener credential. It tells your audience you learned this from us, and it puts you on our map.
That is the whole claim. It is a real thing and it is a small thing, and I would rather you know the size of it before you buy than after. The people who consider hiring you will ask what it means. Now you can tell them, and they can check it on your public verification page.
What is permanent
Your certificate and your public verification page. They read your credential record and stay up whether or not you hold a membership, so somebody can check you years from now. A credential only comes off for a Terms violation or misrepresentation, and that comes with a written reason.
What needs active eligibility
Only your listing on our public map. That is promotion, not the credential, so it runs on an active Club membership. If your membership lapses the listing pauses. Nothing is deleted, your certificate is untouched, and when you start the membership again you get listed again.
GFC-Pro is a professional education and credentialing program. It does not guarantee employment, clients, revenue, or business success. Licensing, insurance and legal requirements vary by place. You are responsible for your own compliance. Nothing in the program is legal advice.
$499
One time. GrowFitFL Certified Garden Professional.
- The Pro track: five modules, 30 lessons, the tools, the six assessed stages
- The AI mentor and the Pro Desk
- Certificate, badge, permanent verification page, and your listing on the map, issued when the sixth stage is done
- Twelve months of GrowFitFL Club, open on day one
What is not included. No printed books ship with GFC-Pro. Printed books are sold separately.
What renews. Nothing in GFC-Pro renews. It is one payment and it is not a subscription. After your included year, you can choose Club Monthly at $15 a month or Club Yearly at the then-current yearly price. Either keeps your membership active for the map listing. You must choose to subscribe; we do not enroll you automatically.
The 14-day money back. Request a full refund within 14 days of purchase, before your first Pro assessment submission. Read lessons, explore tools, and try lesson knowledge checks without ending eligibility. Sending your first assessment for review ends this voluntary guarantee. The 14 days run from purchase, not submission. Email contact@growfitfl.com. Refunds required by law and earlier written guarantees remain honored.
One price, the same for everybody. No discount codes, no fake deadlines, no invented savings.
The ones I get over the fence.
No. This is the teaching track. It assumes you already grow food and want to hand what you know to somebody else. If you are still learning the growing part, GrowFitFL Club is the right door, at $15 monthly or $99 yearly for the same digital access. Come here when the yard is feeding you.
No. Nothing in the program requires a follower count, and nothing in it is scored on one. Teaching on camera is one of six stages. The rest is the class, the course, the yard walk, the consultation, your pricing and your materials. Plenty of good teachers never post a thing.
No. A phone is enough. What the teaching stage looks at is whether the lesson is clear, whether the plant is readable, and whether you can be heard over the wind. Those are craft problems, not gear problems, and the lessons are about the craft.
A written garden assessment of a real yard with photos. A full consultation with a practice client. Three teaching videos: a class, a yard visit, and a piece to camera. Your positioning, service list, pricing and written materials. Then a ten-step launch checklist. Six stages, in order.
Each stage has a written rubric you can read before you submit anything. You send in the work and an AI reviewer scores it against that rubric. The notes come back in writing: what you did right, the one thing to add, and the lesson to go look at. The AI score is a first read, not the final word on close calls. Finish the last stage and the certificate is issued automatically with your full name and your certificate number, your public verification page goes live, and your badge images are ready to download for your own website.
Yes. There is no cap on submissions and no extra charge to send one again. The standard does not move and the number of tries does not run out. Nobody fails GFC-Pro. You finish it.
Jermaine. Where the automated review is not confident, where the evidence reads more than one way, or where you tell us you think a result is wrong, a person reads it and writes back to you, within 3 business days. You can ask for that review at any time.
The certificate and your public verification page are permanent. They read your credential record and stay up whether or not you hold a membership, so somebody can check you years from now. We only take a credential away if the holder breaks the Terms or misrepresents it, and if we ever did that you would get it in writing with the reason.
Only the listing on our public map. That is promotion, not the credential, so it needs an active Club membership. If your membership lapses the listing is paused and nothing is deleted. Start the membership again and you get listed again. Your certificate and your verification page are untouched either way.
No. GFC-Pro is a professional education and credentialing program. It does not guarantee employment, clients, revenue, or business success. Licensing, insurance and legal requirements vary by place. You are responsible for your own compliance. Nothing in the program is legal advice.
Twelve months of it, open on the day you buy. After that year, you can choose Club Monthly at $15 a month or Club Yearly at the then-current yearly price through the membership checkout. Both include the same digital access. The separate $499 Pro payment covers the teaching and assessment track as well as your first twelve months of Club access. Nothing in GFC-Pro renews on its own and nothing here is a subscription.
Press the button on this page. You log in first, because the Pro track is stamped onto your own account and your name goes on your own certificate. Then it is one payment of $499. The lessons, the tools and GrowFitFL Club open right away. Stage one opens right away too, and each stage after it opens when the one before is scored.
You already know the growing part.
This is the other half. Six stages, real work, written notes on every piece of it, and a credential at the end that says the work was actually done. Twelve months of GrowFitFL Club comes with it.
One payment. Not a subscription. 14-day money back before your first Pro assessment submission. Reading lessons does not end eligibility.