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LOCK HAVEN — Who spends five months out of the year nurturing a normal size pumpkin until it grows into a gigantic one weighing more than 1,000 pounds that has to be removed from the garden with a back hoe to be transported to a pumpkin competition?

The Simply Protein and Nut Topper Blends pair the Setton family’s premium California grown pistachios with fresh roasted nuts, seeds and dried fruits. These four ounce resealable bags will join the established line of Pistachio Berry Blend, Pistachio Power Blend and Pistachio Nut Blend.

Sunda, CBD: Vegemite curry with roti Ellen Fraser, Melbourne editor On my first visit to Sunda I knocked back the offer of a Vegemite curry special and was promptly filled with regret. When I returned, it was with a mission. This dish is a rough, golden-tan twist of broken roti next to a wodge of highly concentrated, coppery-brown curry. Chef Khanh Nguyen says it’s made with the usual suspects you’d get in a curry, but along with the Vegemite he adds butter, roasted yeast and sour cream. A well in the centre is filled with shimmering red curry oil. It’s spectacular.

A perennial shrub native to the American tropics, Jatropha curcas ​grows on poor soils in unfavourable climatic conditions.

A lifelong Republican, John Muller voted against the statewide measure in 2016 that legalized the recreational use of marijuana by adults. He was an outlier in Half Moon Bay, where 69 percent of voters backed it.

Soviet sunflower seeds even got mixed up with the Cold War – high-quality seeds surreptitiously moved among Soviet and American plant breeders.

With only a few weeks remaining until the official start to fall, get out there and embrace summer, from rind to seed, before it’s too late.

I’ve eaten at Noodleholics three days in a row without remorse. I still make any excuse I can to visit Noodleholics. I can’t resist.

This morning… early… he and his pumpkin, affectionately named “Sweetie Pie,” made their way to Altoona for for the PA Giant Pumpkin Growers Assn. weigh-off… driving carefully so as not to crack the showpiece, which would mean elimination.

Gaga’s "green room" must be stocked with 28 bottles of water (at room temperature). Then another 28 (chilled). Crossing into adorable, but still weird, are Gaga’s request for organic peanut butter with flaxseeds that contain "no more than 4 grams sugar" and "extra-long" straws, Mirror reports

Joel Milowicki of Keenan Greenhill Farm in Hempfield operates JP’s Farmers Market on Route 819 with his family. Some of his crops, like many others in the state, were hurt by the rainy summer.

After hand pollinating the female plant and planting it directly into the soil, the baby pumpkin – the size of a fingernail – exploded into the behemoth it would become, gaining as much as 52 pounds per day during the summer.