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Updated: 10/11/2012 08:00:39AM

Lifelong dream a recipe for success

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SUN PHOTO BY JOE GALLIMORE jgallimore@sun-herald.com

Kenny Moore and Joanna Fox are the owners of K&J Homegrown Produce and Farmers Market located at 2228 N.E. State Road 70. The store offers a variety of produce and products from DeSoto County and Moore and Fox are expanding their business to offer fresh meats and will soon be excepting Electron Benefit Transfer cards at payment.

SUN PHOTO BY JOE GALLIMORE jgallimore@sun-herald.com

Collard greens, mustard greens, turnip greens ans several varieties of peppers, beans and other vegetables are being grown at K&J Homegrown Produce and Farmers Market located at 2228 N.E. State Road 70. Many of the items will be ready for harvest in about a month.

By JOE GALLIMORE

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DESOTO COUNTY — DeSoto County is the birthplace and lifelong home of Kenny Moore and Joanna Fox, the owners of K&J Homegrown Produce and Farmers Market located at 2228 N.E. State Road 70 directly behind Sweetbay supermarket.

After 15 years together, they decided to pursue the aspiration Kenny made in his DeSoto County High School Senior Yearbook in 1979: “Goals: To run my own produce supermarket.”

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