Local kids grew their own ‘Great Pumpkin’!
“You don’t believe the story of the Great Pumpkin?”
Linus asked Sally over 50 years ago this fall on CBS. The Peanuts story revolved around Linus’s wish for a visit from the Great Pumpkin. Confident of a visit Linus writes him a letter and then confidently tells his friends, “He’ll come here because I have the most sincere pumpkin patch and he respects sincerity.”
We don’t know why the Great Pumpkin did not visit Linus in the made for television story. We do however know why the Great Pumpkin did visit the CONNECT pumpkin patch this autumn!
The CONNECT gardening beds were donated by Neighbors Landscape & Design and the Suchanyc Family. The pumpkin seeds were given to the children by the Cornell Cooperative Extension. The soil was donated by Jeremy Huber. The water was collected in cisterns created out of barrels found left on the side of the road.
Lastly, the students accounted for the size because of their “secret ingredient”! No chemicals or pesticides were used, only the love and care of a sincere community, CONNECT Director Christine McDonald said.
“Thank you CONNECT friends for our Great Pumpkin,” she said to those who made the project possible. “As we celebrate Thanksgiving we could not be more grateful!
