The thought of a Great Pumpkin who rises out of the pumpkin patch he deems the most "sincere" and then flies through the air to deliver toys to all the good little children in the world (or at least those who truly believe) may seem silly to the un-enlightened mind, however I have it on good authority that this year the grand fruit (yes, pumpkins are fruit) himself will grace the Roloff Family Farm (I love their show!).
This is a huge slap in the face to Peoria, Illinois, 90 percent of the pumpkins grown in the United States are raised within a 90-mile radius of there and I am sure they were expecting him.
Did you know that U.S. pumpkin production in 2006 was valued at $101.3 million! That is a lot of pumpkins (556 million pounds to be exact). At 18 cents a pound I would have to sell like 50,000 pumpkins a year (with an average weight of 12 pounds) in order to make $100K. If every family purchased an average of 4 pumpkins I would have to sell to 12,500 families!
Or I could just sell 136,000 pumpkins to Wal-Mart at 6 cents a pound.....either way I don't see pumpkin farming in my immediate future.
