Friends Gloria Gay and Jeanie Dierwechter share a common bond: They love gourds. Both are members of the Pennsylvania Gourd Society, represent the organization every year at the Pennsylvania Farm Show ...

You may have seen that gourds can grow into some pretty wacky shapes, but did you know that they can actually be intentionally molded as well? The Gourd Project, an initiative begun by designer Jun ...

BOISE, Idaho — Garden master Jim Duthie shows us something different that you might want to consider growing next year. Gourds! They’re members of the squash family, and for the most part, people ...

If I plant gourds again (talk me out of it, won't you?), maybe I'll want to try something different from the dippers I've already grown. (They are definitely worth growing in a smallish garden — once.

When Deb Brill buys supplies for her hobby, she stands in the middle of a gourd patch where she examines them carefully and envisions the pieces of art she will create. There are numerous gourds of ...

Tall, short, tiny, large, smooth or asymmetrical: To self-taught artist Andi Wardlaw, gourds make the perfect canvas in whatever shape or size. The Amarillo resident has been using gourds, a large ...

A roadside gourd tree offers the only hint of the unusual experiences awaiting visitors who turn in and drive down the lane to Eli Smucker’s Gourd Farm. The farm is the site of the 2011 Pennsylvania ...

They are grown in our gardens for ornamental purposes. They come in odd shapes and color combinations. They are rarely ...

Many vegetable gardeners look for new crops or new varieties of crops they have experience growing to add to their garden. And this is the time of year when gardeners start to think about how they ...

"Gourds are believed to be among the first cultivated plants in the Amazon, and their use is probably even older than that of ceramics," says researcher Renata Maria de Almeida Martins, professor at ...

BOISE, Idaho — Garden master Jim Duthie shows us something different that you might want to consider growing next year -- gourds! They’re members of the squash family, and for the most part, people ...