|
Support nonprofit, independent environmental journalism.
|
|
 Stories About: agriculture AND climate AND food AND holiday AND severe weather
| Headline |
Author |
Published |
Section |
Neither trick nor treat
Pumpkin production is down for second year in a row |
Sarah van Schagen |
02 Oct 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Halloween may still be four weeks away, but this story's already got me spooked: Scorching weather and lack of rain this summer wiped out some pumpkin crops from western New York to Illinois, leaving fields dotted with undersized fruit. Other fields got too much rain and their crops rotted. It's the second year in a row that pumpkin production has been down. First we're losing our woolly turtlenecks and now our jack-o'-lanterns? Scary. Good thing no on ... |
|
| Topics: agriculture, climate, food, holiday, severe weather (all these topics) |
|
|
|
|
©2008. Grist Magazine, Inc. All rights reserved. Gloom and doom with a sense of humor®.