pumpkin

Last year, a shortage of pumpkin threatened the traditional Thanksgiving pies made from the bright orange squash. The shortage appears to be over, but the conditions that caused the shortage remain unchanged. Here's why pie fans should worry.

Halloween spending is expected to grow 3.9% in 2010 to $6.2 billion, a rebound from a disappointing 2009. Given the scary economy, laughing at the ghouls and goblins of Halloween is a good way to blow off steam.

Dollar Tree is recalling nearly 700,000 Halloween-themed battery-powered lanterns over concerns they could start fires, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said. The plastic lanterns were molded to look like either a pumpkin, ghost or skull. The CPSC said the bulbs can overheat and Dollar...

Pumpkin stencils are all the rage this Halloween. Here are five places to find more than 100 Halloween pumpkin stencils that you can download, cut out and use to decorate yout pumpkin. Whether you use the pumpkin stencils to draw or carve a design is up to you. Hershey's has 30 Halloween pumpkin...

News from Illinois and other Midwestern pumpkin farms has me worried I'll have to add more security to my front walk. My front yard, relieved this spring of its burden of grass, is a wild mess of corn stalks, bean and tomato vines, sunflowers, asparagus ferns, and pumpkins. My kids have already...

Is your family crazy for pumpkins? Walking around my neighborhood, it seems this year that everyone decided to bring the pumpkin patch to their own front yard; I'm wondering the intelligence of trekking 25 miles to the traditional pumpkin farm, complete with hay ride, when I could just grab the...