Golden Globes

It seems a bit early for pumpkins - it's still 6 weeks til Halloween. But at Ellsworth Farm they are already ripe. We grew some vines at the Community Center where I work - last year, vandals smashed them, but someone gave us some more so we tried again. This year, we got only one pumpkin (they often need to be hand-pollinated, and I didn't do it) and just as it was almost ripe, it was stolen. I still have faith in the human race, even so - on the very same day that the pumpkin was taken, a group of teenagers volunteered to clean up the back yard and paint our picnic table, that had been covered with graffiti. Read more here.