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In truth, those pesky seeds can be beneficial to your health. So, too, is the rind, so think twice before tossing them out.

Cut watermelon into four sections. Use a peeler or a pairing knife to carefully remove the green skin. Then, remove the pink flesh, setting about three cups of the fruit aside to make the watermelon juice. (Save the rest to snack on later!)

The growing process starts in the spring when he starts heating the soil in his backyard with underground coils.

What’s striking here is that the idea of breeding cotton for edible cottonseed wasn’t some gee whiz inspiration of the biotech era; this is a project going back 70 years. It’s always worth noting that while our current technologies are producing novel solutions, the problems have been with us for a long time. We’ve been producing cotton with cottonseed packed with fat and protein that we just couldn’t fully utilize going back 7,000 years ago to the Kachi Plain of Balochistan, Pakistan, in the sixth millennium BC.

For humans, we only use cottonseed oil, the processing of which negates the toxin. As a feedstock, cottonseed meal and crop residue is useful, but you have to be careful about rations to avoid toxicity. It’s safe for cattle, but not for hogs or poultry. You can let cattle graze a cotton field after harvest, but you don’t want to let your bull join in for a reason we’re about to get to. General signs of acute toxicity are similar among animal species and include respiratory distress, impaired body weight gain, anorexia, weakness, apathy, and death after several days.

A simple plate of pickled egg and vegetables ($8) is bracingly briny/sweet, though we could have done with more than a quarter of an egg. Pumpkin sage soup ($8) is supernally rich and satisfying, given nice crunch from pumpkin seeds and served at a piping-hot temperature too rarely seen in restaurants. The family-style TSG salad ($8/person) needs a big bowl to accommodate its staggering portion of fine greens and sweet Macomber turnips, perhaps a smidge overdressed with aged cider vinaigrette. The two moderately sized pastas are both sensational: Cockscomb-shaped spinach creste de gallo ($14) in a shockingly green, delectable pesto is given nifty zip from Meyer lemon, while the scrunchy-edged little barrels that are radiatori ($14) arrive with a fatty, tender ragu of Rohan duck and al-dente collard greens.

It’s hard to imagine that this specimen began as seeds that he mixed inside his home until they became a pumpkin plant about the size of a pumpkin most people are used to seeing.

In a stainless steel pot, add water, vinegars, sugar, watermelon juice, cloves, cinnamon stick, and ginger. Bring to gentle boil and cook for 8-10 minutes, using a spoon to remove any pulp that rises to the surface.

Black oil sunflower seeds are the most commonly offered food in the backyard. They also are attractive to the widest variety of birds: cardinals, chickadees, doves, finches, goldfinches, grosbeaks, jays, nuthatches, sparrows, woodpeckers and more.

“I knew going in (the fair) I would have something special,” Geddes said. “Pumpkin growers can measure them in inches and use a chart that gives you the weight within 5 percent. By late July I knew it would be a state record and possibly a U.S. record, and there would be a smaller chance it would be a world record.”

“Taco Bell has a new Watermelon Freeze with candy seeds and I’ve never been more charmed by a beverage,” Stephen Sievwright said on Twitter.

"Use chia seeds in foods, not as a supplement, but as an alternative to processed grains like white bread because it is a much healthier whole grain that is great-tasting in foods like muffins," said Michael Roizen, of the Cleveland Clinic.