Rabun County native shows off over 70 years of gardening experience

  • Megan Horn/The Clayton Tribune. Joey Davenport displays some of the vegetables he grew out of his local garden.
    Megan Horn/The Clayton Tribune. Joey Davenport displays some of the vegetables he grew out of his local garden.
  • Megan Horn/The Clayton Tribune. The vegetables in Joey Davenport’s local garden are growing very well.
    Megan Horn/The Clayton Tribune. The vegetables in Joey Davenport’s local garden are growing very well.
  • Megan Horn/The Clayton Tribune. The vegetables in Joey Davenport’s local garden are growing very well.
    Megan Horn/The Clayton Tribune. The vegetables in Joey Davenport’s local garden are growing very well.
  • Megan Horn/The Clayton Tribune. Joey Davenport displays some of the vegetables he grew out of his local garden.
    Megan Horn/The Clayton Tribune. Joey Davenport displays some of the vegetables he grew out of his local garden.

Rabun County native Joey Davenport tends to this year’s garden at his home on the east side of Clayton where he is growing okra, squash, cucumbers, pumpkins, watermelons, tomatoes, beans, and cantaloupe. He proudly holds a cabbage and Pattypan squash he recently grew.

Davenport was raised in the Persimmon area and shares memories of his time gardening while growing up, especially growing potatoes. Davenport has now been gardening for over 70 years and shares the garden with his daughter Jennifer Davenport.