But it wasn’t the star of the giant pumpkin contest. The man carefully maneuvering the tractor was. “Have you met Pumpkin Ed?” asked Scott Bennett, a giant pumpkin farmer from Mancelona.

Pelletier is a gardener in Saint David who has taken on the challenge to grow two giant pumpkins this year. Pelletier says he ...

From the pumpkin patch in his Rhode Island backyard, Wallace has become the rock star of giant pumpkin-growing. He was the first person in the world to break the 2,000-pound, or 1-ton, barrier ...