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Misty Newcomb
Misty Newcomb is a wife, mother, gardener, and small-scale chicken farmer interested in using natural foods to build a healthy, connected family and community. She has a full-time professional career off the farm and enjoys figuring out how to efficiently feed her family like it’s 1899 while living a modern, balanced lifestyle. She’s also a die-hard NBA and NCAA basketball fan and amateur fermenter. You can find the chronicles of her farming journey on Instagram @newcombfarm.
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Gardening
How to Get Rid of Squash Vine Borers without Pesticides
It’s a common experience for folks trying to grow vegetables without pesticides. You plant squash in the first stretch of warm weather and watch it grow into a beautiful plant. But soon after harvesting the first delicious squash, you come out to your garden and find the plant that was beaming with...
Misty Newcomb
Jun 7, 2023
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Gardening
Get Big Harvests in Small Spaces with Square-Foot Gardening
It’s easy to get caught up in thinking that you must have a lot of space to make gardening worthwhile. But even with a small amount of space, you can actually produce quite a bit of produce by using the square-foot garden method.
If you aren’t familiar with the concept of a square-foot garden, it’s...
Misty Newcomb
May 15, 2023
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Gardening
Gardening in Cooler Weather
Once the days grow longer and we start seeing little buds on trees and daffodils popping up around the periphery of the yard, it’s easy to want to get some plants in the dirt. And though we can’t grow a lot of the vegetables that require the mid-summer heat to thrive, there is actually a lot that we...
Misty Newcomb
May 10, 2023
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Gardening
Spring Care for Big Bulbs of Garlic
Garlic is one of the slow movers of the garden world. It’s typically planted in the fall and quietly builds a solid root structure underneath the ground all winter. Little green garlic stems popping up over the top of the soil are typically one of the first signs that spring will be here soon, but...
Misty Newcomb
Apr 26, 2023
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