{"id":21289,"date":"2015-10-03T12:10:55","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T19:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=21289"},"modified":"2015-10-03T12:10:55","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T19:10:55","slug":"california-pumpkin-festivals-are-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-pumpkin-festivals-are-king\/","title":{"rendered":"California Pumpkin Festivals Are King"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Are you ready for the\u00a0California Pumpkin Festivals<\/a> to begin? The race is on! \u00a0Pictured (right) is\u00a0a decorated racer at the annual Manhattan Beach Pumpkin Races<\/a>. \u00a0 The left photo shows the\u00a0Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Weigh-off, part of the annual Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pumpkin season has arrived and it’s hitting the country by storm. In\u00a0Cedarburg, Wisconsin last week the North American giant pumpkin record was broken by a proud\u00a0Gene McMullen who brought in a specimen weighting 2,145 pounds — as heavy as\u00a0a car! Though his pumpkin didn’t ace world record holder \u00a0Beni Meier of Switzerland’s monster fruit, which tipped the scales at 2,378 pounds in 2014, there are still weigh-ins to be held in California in 2015 and anything is possible in the\u00a0World of \u00a0Giants!<\/p>\n

Pumpkin festival season launched the first week in October in California with Manteca Pumpkin Fair Oct. 3 & 4, 2015, and their Giant Pumpkin Contest. Manteca is California’s pumpkin capital for growing pumpkins for market. Approx. 8 out of every 10 pumpkins sold commercially in California come from the fields around Manteca where\u00a054,000 tons of pumpkins in 2013 (with a\u00a0gross value of $16.2 million) were transported and sold.<\/p>\n

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Are you ready for the\u00a0California Pumpkin Festivals to begin? The race is on! \u00a0Pictured (right) is\u00a0a decorated racer at the annual Manhattan Beach Pumpkin Races. \u00a0 The left photo shows the\u00a0Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Weigh-off, part of the annual Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival. Pumpkin season has arrived and it’s hitting the country […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21289"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}