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Food

2015

How Does It Grow

Pumpkin

Telling the stories of our food from field to fork.

Pumpkin

Season 2016 Episode 11 | 3m 43s | CC

You’ve been duped: that “pumpkin” puree in the can isn’t pumpkin at all — at least not the kind you think! We bust the great American pumpkin myth and discover why we grow 500 million pounds of the stuff each year — without eating any of it.

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