30 fruits, almost 40 vegetables, all in a 50-by-50-foot space
Penny and Brad Behnes’ backyard garden backs up to Summer Avenue. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
Walk into Brad and Penny Behnes’ backyard and you’ll encounter a land abundant with life. Chickens cluck. Bees buzz.
What they’ve already harvested this summer reads like a Sprouts grocery list: There’s lettuce and mustard greens, strawberries and radishes, peaches, blackberries, carrots and turnips, raspberries, blueberries, figs, and tomatoes — not to mention the two hives of bees. The pollinators produce enough honey for a year’s worth of sweet tea.
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