
Mike Bennett discovered the benefits of backyard growing organically. While touring with his band, Apple Juice Jones, Bennett dined on homegrown vegetables cultivated on a California family’s farm. Upon returning to his Chestnut Hill abode, Bennett, of Ambler, began working for Chris Mattingly of Backyard Eats, a Flourtown-based edible garden designer and builder, whose “foodscaping” staff creates and maintains backyard habitats throughout the greater Philadelphia area. “Right when COVID started I was looking to start my business doing something like this and found (Mattingly) and decided to