Pumpkins in Farmstead World — crop in the game, and what it is on a real farm.
A pumpkin is a winter squash, a trailing vine that sets heavy fruit with a hard shell so it keeps for months without spoiling.
Native to North America, pumpkins were a staple long before they were a lantern, and their seeds are roasted or pressed for oil.
Farm facts about pumpkins
Botanically, every pumpkin is a fruit — a thick-rinded berry called a pepo — yet the word 'pumpkin' has no scientific definition at all. (en.wikipedia.org)
Pumpkins are among the oldest known domesticated plants: pumpkin fragments found in Mexico date to between 7000 and 5500 BCE. (en.wikipedia.org)
Squash was domesticated in the Americas roughly 4,000 years before maize and beans became crops. (en.wikipedia.org)
Indigenous North American farmers grew pumpkins as one of the 'Three Sisters' — squash, maize, and beans planted together so each crop helps the others. (en.wikipedia.org)
The word 'squash' comes from askutasquash, a Narragansett word for 'a green thing eaten raw', written down by Roger Williams in 1643. (en.wikipedia.org)
Zucchini, acorn squash, pattypan, and classic orange pumpkins are all the same species — Cucurbita pepo. (en.wikipedia.org)