Evergreen fruit bush/tree for fence rows

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I’ve bought some Pineapple Guava or also know as Feijoa and think this would make a nice fence row which I need to be about at least 9’ tall. I would like to plant other easy low maintance evergreen fruit bushes with these Feijoa’s and would like some ideas for my zone 8A in N. Florida (no Citrus or Loquat).

Is there a good tasting dwarf olive that gets no more the 15’ tall and keeps it’s leaves year round?

Any berry bushes which at least the birds can eat from and maybe they will stay a way from my fruits?

Any evergreen which attract bugs and maybe they will stay a way from my fruits?

(no Citrus or Loquat)

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My father was a California olive grower. Olives require quite a bit of preparation. One must soak them in large crocks in lye, alternating with salt and rinsing periodically, for about a month, then pressure can what you can’t eat in a few weeks. They are tasty, but a lot of work. You can’t just pick them and pop them in your mouth.

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How about goumi? We’re trying them this year. Supposedly easy to propagate too.

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Interesting bush however it might only be semi evergreen depending on zone, don’t know if I want to take a chance I want something that definitely will hold its leaves during winter

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I’ll take a look at a couple videos I never thought about harvesting them, I figured they would just grow in the jar with the pimiento peppers already in them (I wish).

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Just watch some videos on processing olives, it is definitely a process. Might be best I just stick to the two olive trees I currently have. Olives are one of my favorite. I was that kid running around Thanksgiving morning with olives on my fingers.

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Goumi are evergreen in Zone 8A, at least they have been for me. This last winter with the freak cold storm that saw us drop down to Zone 6 temps was the first time they lost their leaves.
No idea if the fruit is any good, but variegated silverberries are nitrogen fixers and are evergreen:
Variegated silverberry - FineGardening
you can grow trifoliate orange (flying dragon) as a shrub and that will survive, though you may suffer some die back in bad winters.

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