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Nantucket bay scallops with chorizo at Confluence in Carefree on Dec. 3, 2018. (Photo: Patrick Breen/The Republic)

The 3,880-square-foot space features large communal tables and a relaxing atmosphere. The menu features over a dozen locally-sourced sausages from Forbes Meat Company, Belgian-style fries, pimento cheese delights, and more.

In late April, he heated some soil and planted the pumpkin outside in a little tent that eventually became a bigger canopy as it grew, to keep it from getting wet. Jeff put a fence around the pumpkin to keep out small animals.

The $2.38 slushy joins Mountain Dew Baja Blast and the Skittles Strawberry Freeze as the brand’s distinctive drinks. A 16-ounce cup has 220 calories.

Pumpkins, which local farmers call “punkins,” are difficult to grow profitably on a small farm. They must be farmed on different plots every two to three years, or they can become diseased. Seeds are planted after Mother’s Day in May, and harvest comes four or five months later. Buyers typically want pumpkins only during a six-week stretch, leading up to Halloween. That puts enormous pressure on growers to cash in during a small window.

The proposal died, and the council instead put it on the ballot in November. The politicians would let the voters decide.

Keep an eye on your sunflowers this fall, whether you want to harvest them for people food or bird food. Sunflowers are mature when the back of the heads turn brown and dry. Most of the yellow petals will have dried and fallen, with the seeds still plump. Sunflowers can tolerate some frost when they are small.

You may come across these nutritious and tasty seeds on foods like bagels, breadsticks, hamburger buns, and more. Studies have suggested their consumption could raise our blood levels of antioxidants, including vitamin E.

Millet. Several varieties of millet include white proso, red, golden, German and Japanese. All are eaten by a variety of ground-feeding sparrows, game birds, and waterfowl, but most backyard birds prefer white proso millet. One of millet’s best qualities is that its seed coat is hard enough to resist weathering, but not too hard for birds to crack.

And, he adds, some people prefer the caramel flavor of the Sugar baby variety, while others like the straight watermelon flavor of Crimson sweets. So the definition of "sweet" is variable.

It doesn’t get much simpler than this when you wanna prepare a wholesome, easy, delicious recipe for yourself. In this Salad recipe by Emily von Euw, got oven-baked sweet potatoes, potatoes, eggplant and garlic paired with a spinach salad, all topped off with tomatoes, sunflower seeds and bell peppers.

As for the rind, it serves well as a crunchy component, too, whether tossed into a stir fry or pickled and plated alongside a sandwich or smoky BBQ. A pickled rind creates a great salad topper.