Did you know there are actually NINE layers to a food forest — not the 7 you see plastered all over Facebook?
That one correction has the building blocks of your entire ecosystem woven into it. Miss it, and everything you plant quietly fights uphill. Get it right, and the whole system starts working for you.
It’s the kind of simple shift that makes a big difference — and it’s just one of hundreds I’ve collected over the last decade.
For years I taught this the hard way — live webinars, one night at a time, gone the moment they ended.
Well… that was dumb.
So, I’ve officially launched The Independence Series.
The entire system for building a self-sufficient life — TIAG’s frameworks, real Permaculture Design resources, and family-first, actual independence — cut into self-paced courses you own forever and can come back to every season. Custom-built for your family to walk through on your own time, at your own pace, on your own unique regenerative journey. Personalized to help you restore independence right at home.
Here’s the thing most “homestead advice” gets wrong.
It hands you a pile of tips — a pond here, a garden there, a shed you meant to build, a random deep-dive on swales — with no order to any of it. Or it dumps a hundred new ideas on you with no way to actually apply them. So you’re right back in analysis paralysis. Effort scatters, projects stall, and the land never starts working for you.
The Independence Series is built the opposite way: as a sequence.
Water first. Then food that comes back on its own. Then the framework that ties the whole property together — and the personal capacity to actually carry it without burning out. You climb the ladder of all 17 courses, one by one, in the real order I use to develop and support homesteads and families across North America.
Backed by 10+ years, a 27-state teaching record, and stages shared with some of the greatest minds in regenerative agriculture — this uniquely positions me to help you succeed in a way most people simply can’t.
Let me hold your hand as you walk the journey to self-sufficiency, one lesson at a time.
And let your kids join you.
Start with any one of these today:
🌱 Perennial Food Systems — plant it once, harvest for decades. Passive food production that gets easier every year.
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https://perennialfoodsystems.independenceseries.com
💪 Personal Resilience — build the person who can carry the mission, so the dream doesn’t burn you out first.
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https://personalresilience.independenceseries.com
💧 It Starts With Water — slow it, spread it, sink it. Get the one thing every other system is built on.
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https://itstartswithwater.independenceseries.com
NEXT DROP:
🔒 The 4 Pillars of Self-Sufficiency — the whole framework on one page, plus the interactive Household Resilience Audit.
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https://4pillars.independenceseries.com
Every course is $47. One time. Lifetime access, every future update included, watch on any device, your progress follows you wherever you log in.
Or take the whole library and never think about it again.
All 17 courses — every one above plus every Friday drop still to come — is $497 (that’s $799 of courses; you save $302, every new course lands in your account free forever, and your progress syncs across TIAG platforms and every device).
👉 See everything and choose your course:
https://independenceseries.com
And I put a simple promise on all of it:
Go through any course, and if it doesn’t give you a clearer, doable next step on your own land, email me inside 30 days and I’ll personally work with you 1-on-1 to make sure you’re getting actionable steps and resources that actually matter for your family. The risk is mine, not yours.
You don’t need more inspiration. You need a system, in the right order, that you own.
That’s exactly what this is.
Catch rain, grow food, store energy, and produce a surplus — from home.
— Jamon
The Independent American Gardener
www.IndependenceSeries.com
P.S. — One-time buyers own their courses forever, including every future update. If we upgrade a course down the road (we will), you get the new version free. Want everything at once for the best price? The full-series bundle is $497 and includes every course still to come — plus the webinar recordings behind them (all 34 resources, every workbook, all downloads).
GET THE FULL SERIES →
(Prefer to pay monthly? Join TIAG at tiag.app for $27/mo — it unlocks a new course each month as you finish the last. Want them all today? The $497 bundle above is the move.)
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