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Field Notes: Capybara Pups, Falcons, Supermarket Dance Parties, and Living on a Shellmound

This week: Making use of rotten pumpkins; dancing at the Filipino market; growing up on an Alameda shellmound; and reclaiming the past through kids’ books. Plus, SF Trans Film Festival, teen inventors, the art of falconry, capybara mania, and a serendipitous City Hall photo-op.

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Ginormous Gourds Compete In Half Moon Bay for Annual Pumpkin Weigh-Off; Winner Is From Santa Rosa

The 52nd annual Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off happened Monday morning in Half Moon Bay, and great big pumpkins vied for this year's title.

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Watch: 2,471-Pound Pumpkin From Minnesota Wins Half Moon Bay's World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off

The city of Half Moon Bay was out of its gourd again Monday morning for the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off, and it was a squeaker, as the winning 2,471-pound pumpkin won by a razor-thin margin of just six pounds.

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Watch: 2,749-Pound Pumpkin Wins Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival Contest, Sets New World Record

The 2,500-pound largest pumpkin ever grown in California still wasn't big enough to win the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival Pumpkin Weigh-Off, as a farmer from Minnesota drove in a pumpkin that won the contest and set a new world record at 2,749 pounds.

Half Moon Bay’s 51st Annual Pumpkin Festival Sprouts Miles Of Smiles

The smell of autumn is in the air, and in the picturesque coast around Half Moon Bay, this thrilling season is marked by a festival like no other: the iconic Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival.

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Minnesota Man Wins Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival Contest With 2,560-Pound ‘Gourdzilla’

There’s a new Great Pumpkin in town, as the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival kicked off Monday with the Pumpkin Weigh-Off, and a Minnesota man broke the North American record with a pumpkin weighing 2,560 pounds.

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Half Moon Bay Calls Off Its Pumpkin Festival For Second Year, But Pumpkin Contest Will Happen

Out of an abundance of caution for the spread of COVID, the city council of Half Moon Bay voted this week to deny a special event permit to the annual pumpkin festival. Organizers now say they need a benefactor to step in to save the day.

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Behold: The Gargantuan Gourds Of The Half Moon Bay World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off

It's decorative gourd season, motherf****rs, and this year — as any other — the place to be is Half Moon Bay. The self-proclaimed World Pumpkin Capital hosts its 46th annual Pumpkin

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San Francisco Teen Raises $200K For Charity With Pumpkin Sales

While most of us spend the time leading up to Halloween preoccupied with costume decisions and purchases, one San Francisco teen has over the past 11 years spent his Octobers in a different

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Another Year Of Drought, Another Year of Teeny-Tiny Pumpkins

We know that California's drought is doing all sorts of horrible things to our state, drying us to a Mad Max-like crisp and burning us to ash. And for the

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Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Who F&@%ed This Pumpkin?'

It's a problem you may encounter at your next pumpkin carving unveiling. But probably not. Unless your friends are really pervy. Don't look at us. [Cracked]

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Half Moon Bay's World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off Happening Today

If we had any ounce of adventurousness in us on this rainy morning, we'd be on the road to Half Moon Bay for the 38th Annual Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-

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"Miniature Pumpkins" spotted in Half Moon Bay by Troy Holden.

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Support Your Local Pumpkin Farmers

We're halfway through October, which means you can safely purchase pumpkin without fear of it wilting into a sloppy orange mess on your doorstep before Halloween*. Naturally, this is San Francisco

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World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off In Half Moon Bay

On Monday, "hundreds of spectators' gathered in Half Moon Bay to judge the World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off, the annual precursor to Art & Pumpkin Festival happening on Saturday and Sunday.