Homegrown

Jamila Norman helps families transform their outdoor spaces into beautiful and functional backyard farms while exploring the benefits of growing your own food.
Preserve
S3 E1

Jamila teaches a young family how to preserve their harvest using canning techniques, making the most of their backyard garden and allowing them to enjoy their food year-round.

Engage
S3 E3

Jamila assists a busy family, ensuring a safe, engaging backyard; they learn to grow and dry herbs to create custom seasonings for cooking together in an outdoor kitchen; the whole family gets involved planting seeds and seedlings.

Growing Up
S3 E4

Jamila transforms a family's small backyard, turning their urban space into a green oasis; she introduces aeroponics and teaches the family to grow colorful vegetables and herbs.

Harvest
S3 E5

Jamila guides an Atlanta homeowner to revamp his urban backyard; they explore honey harvesting, add beehives and create a thriving raised bed garden with vegetables and herbs.

Restore
S3 E8

Jamila opens up a neglected yard and creates an oasis for all generations.

Back to the Basics
S2 E1

Jamila creates a thriving ecosystem for a suburban family's backyard.

Nurture
S2 E2

Jamila teaches a family the basics of nurturing and raising baby chicks.

Gather
S2 E3

Jamila designs a backyard with espalier fruit trees and a living wall.

Curiosity
S2 E4

Jamila designs and builds a modern gardening space with steel accents.

Hidden Potential
S2 E5

Jamila shows a young family the hidden potential in their backyard, using sheep to clear an overgrown wooded area and filling their new terraced garden beds with heirloom vegetables, like tomatoes, watermelons and okra.

Try Something New
S2 E6

Jamila teaches her best friend, Tito, how to propagate houseplants and vegetables; she also helps her take her garden to the next level with thriving veggies and a sun-filled conservatory, complete with a beautiful surprise.

New Beginnings
S2 E7

In one of her biggest transformations yet, Jamila turns a family's unused backyard into a mini farm, with a multi-tiered deck for family gatherings and planting vegetables, plus goats and chickens, creating a Zen space for them to grow together.

Work Smarter, Not Harder
S2 E9

Jamila helps a mother-daughter duo bring new growth to their historic farm by installing a large tank to collect rainwater for their garden; she teaches them about muscadines, a grape variety grown in the south.

Passion
S2 E10

Jamila teaches a couple who are opening a brewery how to plant and grow their own hops, plus they welcome two adorable miniature Highland cows to their new backyard farm.

Natural Solutions
S2 E11

Jamila uses natural solutions to solve a backyard's mosquito problem and transforms the lackluster space into a tropical-inspired paradise with a lush garden.

Restore
S2 E12

With Jamila's help, a couple transforms their neglected backyard into a haven for their extended family to learn, share, and care for both the new plants and the newly-hatched baby Silkie chicks.

Patience
S1 E1

Jamila helps the Hartman family renovate their backyard into a beautiful, functioning garden with a chicken coop and banana plants that remind the homeowner of her homeland.

Discovery
S1 E2

Jamila transforms a family's underutilized backyard into an English garden with space for outdoor dining and a fire pit by using goats to clear their land.

Inspiration
S1 E4

Jamila helps a family repurpose their empty backyard into a sustainable garden complete with a solarium for growing pineapple plants and citrus trees.

Balance
S1 E5

Jamila tackles a bamboo invasion in a young couple's backyard; building a two-level garden with space for growing in raised beds, and vertically on an unused retaining wall.

Rejuvenation
S1 E6

Jamila teaches a family how to grow on their sloped yard by building a terraced garden; she transforms their overgrown space into a tropical oasis.