Pumpkins and gourds offer endless possibilities for decorating your home, both indoors and out. Their natural beauty, combined with their variety of shapes, sizes, and colors, makes them perfect ...

Though their flesh be adamant and their seeds bitter, thousands of decor enthusiasts will flock to the farm to pick out gourds for arrangements spilling out of wicker baskets or piled on dining ...

“You haven’t seen the garage,” Carlton tells me. I learned that the decorating of the gourds brings in all manner of art and technique and embellishment. Some gourds are painted, some ...

Over many centuries, gourds have been used as utensils and to make musical instruments. Closer to home, they are mainly used for decoration. Pumpkins and gourds complement each other, local ...

While gourds have been used through much of human history as cups, bowls and containers, the smallish fruits people fancy for decor tend to be both inedible and, more important, almost ...

All over America, it’s the season of gourds and Indian corn — both highly useful raw materials that can yield art projects and seed for next year’s garden. The key is knowing what to buy now ...

That gourd will sell for around $800. The Canto sisters — Katya, 29, and Blanca, 24 — are experts in the folk art of decorating gourds. Their father taught them when they were growing up in ...

Tis season for decorating with funky-shaped squashes and oddly patterned gourds. But unlike pumpkins, which can easily be turned into pie (or lattes), are these gourds straight off the pumpkin ...

Grace A. Dow Memorial Library invites patrons of all ages to participate in a “Fall Into Reading” gourd decorating contest for the chance to win prizes. Participants can decorate gourds using ...