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.

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 ...

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