Source: NCSU COOPERATIVE EXTENSION, 10/23/21

There may be no better symbol for the fall season than the pumpkin. Big and bright, hearty and healthy, pumpkins represent everything good about autumn. They’re widely used as decorations throughout the fall, though you may associate them with Halloween the most. Whether you’re carving them or cooking them, you can’t go wrong with pumpkins. 

Either way, it’s important to choose the right pumpkins and know how to store them – no one wants rotten pumpkins staining the porch or smelling up the house just as it’s getting cold outside!

In this episode of Homegrown, we take a road trip to get some pumpkin pointers from Penny Perkins-Veazie, a researcher in postharvest physiology with NC State University – she studies what happens to fruits and vegetables after they’ve been harvested.

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