News, 100,000 pumpkins washed away at Vt. farm. (Connecticut, Vermont)

[JD59]

NEWBURY, Vt., Oct. 6 (UPI) -- The owner of a farm in Newbury, Vt., says drenching rains washed as many as 100,000 pumpkins into the Connecticut River.

Margaret Gladstone of Newmont Farm told WMUR-TV, Manchester, N.H., at least two people who plucked pumpkins from the river have sent her money for them. She said other farmers have offered to help her fill orders.


100,000 pumpkins washed away at Vt. farm - UPI.com

[lifelongMOgal]

That stinks. Hope that farmer had crop insurance!

[harry chickpea]

It isn't the first time something like this has happened in Vermont. There is (or was) an area near the Lamoille River called "Pumpkin Cove" because that was where all the pumpkins washed up after one flood.

[Luvvarkansas]

Bless their hearts...all that work, just washed away.