Pumpkin shortage causing rise in prices in NC
Story Date: 10/4/2021

 

Source:  MYFOX8, 10/2/21

Every fall, about 150 million Americans purchase pumpkins to decorate or carve with their families. “These have pretty shapes don’t they,” Clare Houston said while picking out pumpkins. “Not sure I like the speckled part.” After being isolated in her home for months, she said pumpkin hunting has been a much-needed relief. “To actually go out on my deck and do something with pumpkins, it was just like medicine to my soul,” Houston said. She said Simpson’s Pumpkins and Trees in South Charlotte has always been a preferred spot to shop.

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