In the main barn, you'll find products from both the Vermont area and Hillview, including fresh eggs, decorative gourds, squash, bottled sauces, pumpkins, mums and fresh pies.
Thanksgiving was there, decorative gourds and all, and they all needed to get laid.
Pumpkins aren't only for Halloween; the decorative gourds can grace your table, sideboards, and coffee tables much earlier than Halloween as an indicator of fall.
For example, zucchini, Howden Field pumpkin, acorn squash, spaghetti squash, small decorative gourds, and Jack-Be-Little miniature pumpkins are all members of the same botanical species, C. Pepo.
But one central question remains: Why? Ron Evans, the curator of primates at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens, said the gourds are more than just decorative and that there is "nutritional value to a pumpkin".
She relies on cane tepees in her vegetable garden to support everything from climbing string beans and birdhouse gourds to unusual vines whose pods can be decorative in winter.
Snake gourd, bitter gourd, ash gourd, I can barely write these names without grimacing.
