26/10/2026
🎃🚜 HAPPY NATIONAL PUMPKIN DAY! 🚜🎃
It’s officially time to celebrate one of autumn’s most recognisable crops!
From pumpkin patches to pumpkin soup, pies and Halloween lanterns, pumpkins are a pretty versatile crop and there’s a lot more to them than meets the eye!
Did you know?
🎃 Pumpkins are part of the squash family, alongside courgettes, marrows and butternut squash.
🌍 They’re grown commercially across the world, with pumpkins being an important seasonal crop.
🐝 Their bright flowers rely on pollinators such as bees to help produce those iconic pumpkins.
🌾 Pumpkins grow on long trailing vines and need plenty of space to spread across the field.
🧡 And that familiar orange colour comes from carotenoids, particularly beta-carotene.
So, whether you’re carving one, cooking one or spotting them out in the fields… today is all about giving pumpkins the appreciation they deserve!