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Hartford Courant - Heirloom Pumpkins In Hot Demand For Seasonal Decoration Market

By KORKY VANN, The Hartford Courant

When it comes to trendy produce, heirloom tomatoes are so last summer.

The newest harvest stars are pumpkins, and we're not talking standard bright-orange globes. Heirloom pumpkins with unusual shapes, unexpected colors and exotic names are showing up at farm stands around the state, and farmers say customers can't get enough of the trendy fruits. (Yes, pumpkins are fruits, not vegetables.)

When style diva Martha Stewart set out to find designer pumpkins for the October cover of Martha Stewart Living magazine, her first stop was Pumpkinseed Hill Farm, part of the Jones Family Farms in Shelton.

Keith Padin, director of marketing there, says Stewart had plenty to choose from.

"The farm grows more than 50 varieties of pumpkins on about 25 acres," Padin says. "We have tiny pumpkins, big pumpkins, striped pumpkins, white pumpkins, even jade-green pumpkins. Each year we add new varieties."

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