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Dry weather creating more flavorful pumpkins

A Michigan farmer says this year’s dry weather has been exceptional for growing pumpkins.

Linda Maxwell has been selling pumpkins to the public for more than 50 years in Beaverton.

“Through the summer you tend to be a little nervous about how the fruit will set, what you’ll be able to harvest, but from years of being involved with pumpkins, we are much better in a drier year as opposed to a wetter year,” she shares.

Maxwell says she cooks all the squash varieties before the season starts to help customers make selections.

“We raise some of the more colorful squash because people can decorate with it and then eat it a little later, and just the old basic acorn squash—never my favorite—they are so good and so sweet this year,” she says.

Maxwell Pumpkin Farm is only open to visitors during October.  The family also grows corn, soybeans, sugarbeets, and wheat.