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.
Uzzi and I look forward to Halloween because the day after Halloween, pumpkins go on sale and Mom buys us lots of pumpkins to eat.
Courtesy Allison Smith Greenbelt, Maryland, uses locally grown jack-o’-lanterns to give seasonal flair to its forest preservation program. They may not be Charlie Brown’s anticipated Great Pumpkin, which gives presents to good boys and girls, but the pumpkins at the Greenbelt Pumpkin Festival in Maryland do an even greater deed by involving the community in […]