Turnip Jack-O’-Lantern: The Original Halloween Tradition
October 16, 2025Turnips have nutritional as well as medicinal value, and they also pre-date the pumpkin when it comes to making lanterns out of vegetables.
Turnips have nutritional as well as medicinal value, and they also pre-date the pumpkin when it comes to making lanterns out of vegetables.
Outside of trick-or-treating and corn mazes, there are plenty of fun and traditional ways to celebrate the season of spookiness.
Amid the ghosts and ghouls of Halloween is a mix of traditions that honor the dead, and these herbs have played a supporting role.
Uzzi and I love this time of year because soon we’ll be eating yummy pumpkins. Pumpkins are loaded with vitamin A and beta-carotene, the USDA says, and we think they just taste good!