October 18-19, Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival, Family Fun

From carved pumpkins to painted ones, pumpkin soup or tart, as the recipient for risotto or wild rice on restaurant dishes not to forget pumpkin ale, now is that time of the year when pumpkins are omnipresent. For those of us in the San Francisco area on October 18-19, the...

Prize-Winning Pumpkin Weighs 1,528 Pounds

Thad Starr of Oregon won the Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-off with a pumpkin that weighed in at a whopping 1,528 pounds. It was Starr's second victory at the contest, which hands out $6 a pound to the...

Giant Pumpkins Abound: Half Moon Bay's Pumpkin Festival

From the images I have seen this looked like a great community event with some mighty big pumkins. A great way to enjoy such a beautiful stretch of California land, as coastline meets green, and then turns orange...

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