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I’ll admit that separating the seeds from the vegetable’s stringy membrane can be messy. The seeds are sticky, the membrane in which they are embedded is sticky, and your hands will get sticky as you do the work. The solution? Pull the seeds out of the pumpkin’s cavity, put them in a large bowl of water, then swish them around. The strands of membrane are much easier to pull off in water. Remove any of the seeds’ residual stickiness by rinsing them once or twice. Now they’re good to go.

Do away with the fried exterior (who needs that grease, anyway?) and make it all about the spring roll filling in these hearty grain bowls. Unlike with regular rolls, you don’t need to worry about double-dipping on the sauce here, either—it’s mixed right into the rice, shrimp, and veggies, so you get plenty of sunbuttery goodness in each bite.

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Three proud proprietors of Schumitsch Seed Inc. include, from left to right, Jay, Penny and Scott Schumitsch. (Photo: Courtesy of Travis Dewitz)

“These don’t really look like your normal jack-o’-lantern pumpkins,” Geddes said. “These pumpkins are a variety known as Dill Atlantic Giants, which were developed by a Nova Scotia resident by the name of Howard Dill back in the 1950s. He probably did the most amount of work when it came to selective breeding and crossing pumpkins with varieties of winter squash. Eventually, he came up with these enormous specimens."

Currently, Ouriel is experimenting with a sunscreen and a lip balm, but she plans to keep the line relatively spare. She spends a few hours every day not in the lab but at her computer, answering skin-care questions from blog readers. Microneedling? Avoid. Microcurrent? Enjoy. “I feel it’s my duty to clear the lake of misinformation,” she says. On the weekends, she makes time to visit the racetrack in Arcadia (her father owns a horse racing company) and play with friends in a punk-rock bowling league (her favorite black-metal band is Dissection). “Sometimes we’ll order junk food, but I don’t drink,” she says. “It’s very damaging to the epidermis.”

*I do not use low-sodium broth in recipes. If you use low sodium, you might need to add more salt to the recipe for optimum taste.

Live food. Finally, for a treat birds cannot resist, offer live mealworms, the larval stage of harmless darkling beetles, on a shallow tray. Woodpeckers, chickadees, titmice, nuthatches, and even cardinals love ‘em.

“The oat-milling world is a very small group of people,” he allows, “but every one of them that I’ve met so far has been a good-intentioned and kind person. I’m excited to work in this industry for years to come.”

Here’s a somewhat boring fact you might already know about cotton: It doesn’t make a good food, for humans or animals. Glands throughout the plant produce a toxic pigment called gossypol that limits its use as feed stock.

“They’re relatively low in calories, too — about 160 calories per one-ounce portion, or essentially a palmful,” said Shank, who recommends munching on them straight out of the oven, too.