The homesteading pros at Gold Shaw Farm show how the giant pumpkin contest gets completely wild. An American dream at risk: ...

Richard Johnson, a farmer in the Blackfoot area, is the sales manager for Lemken, a German equipment manufacturing company.

Gourd big or go home Growing giant pumpkins begins with growing giant vines, which, by midseason, sprawl across hundreds of square feet. Growers often hand-pollinate just one blossom per vine. The ...

Ian (left) and Stuart Paton pose with a giant pumpkin in their nursery in the New Forest, Hampshire. The pumpkin’s name was Muggle and it weighed as much as a bull moose. At 2,819 pounds and over 21 ...

ANOKA, Minn. — On a chilly April morning, Travis Gienger took his first gamble of the 2025 season. The world-champion giant-pumpkin grower typically starts his seeds indoors. But this year he was out ...

Halloween is a joyful time. When the holiday is over and your toothy gourd looks past its prime, give it a new life. Brandon Dawson, who grew this year’s biggest pumpkin in the 52nd annual Safeway ...

Harvest festivals, corn mazes and pick-your-own pumpkin farm events are winding down as Virginia Pumpkin Month comes to a close on Friday. Commercial growers throughout the state are winding down ...

The annual TJ’s Seed Sack Largest Pumpkin Growing and Carving Contest took place at El Pinto on Saturday, with pumpkins big, small and spooky up against each other in the competition. In the ...

Among the greatest is Gienger, four-time winner of the Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off, the hobby’s Super Bowl. Gienger has earned tens of thousands of dollars from the national contest, ...

If you walk into a grocery store, you'll likely see piles of fruits and vegetables waiting to be purchased. But these foods didn't always look this way; many were domesticated — that is, selectively ...

This massive 2,346-pound pumpkin would make one scary jack-o-lantern. After narrowly missing the title last year, electrical vehicle engineer Brandon Dawson won the top prize at the Safeway World ...

An engineer and gardening enthusiast is taking home $20,000 after winning the top prize at an annual pumpkin-weighing contest in Northern California. Brandon Dawson’s giant jack-o’-lantern gourd ...