The Great Oilseed Pumpkin Migration of 2024

I’m quite tired, and feeling low on inspiration for new ingredients, so I’m going to do something a bit different this week: I’ll document the Great Oilseed Pumpkin Migration of 2024.

On Saturday I harvested fifteen oilseed pumpkins (and the two orange ones, which it turns out are not oilseed pumpkins). I was harvesting them because a) the vines were dying back and b) the soup kitchen at my church was short of fresh veg donations that week. I already had four more at home from a previous excursion, and had processed a further one. Twenty pumpkins from two sowing stations is not bad going at all in terms of yield!

In the next post in this series, I’ll post about the process of getting the seeds out.

Meanwhile, in the last two days I’ve eaten the following locavore food:

• strawberries

• raspberries

• apples

• pears

• tomatoes

• leeks

• sage

• lovage

• mustard greens