We had pretty good success growing a variety of Seminole pumpkin through the hottest, most humid months here at Sandhill Farm, our own demonstration site, and our only regret is that we didn't plant enough of them. We were able to harvest about 70lbs. out of just a small about of seed, but would have had more, if it had not been for this old, wise tortoise tenant who moved into the market garden,

& gobbled up many young pumpkins & other treats we had planted.
As they ripen, the taste is almost exact to a pie pumpkin that most people are familiar with. Since our harvest, we have been roasting them for soups & in bite-sized cubes as salad topping or taco filling. Our family was pretty impressed with our Seminole pumpkin recipes over the holidays & especially excited with the fact that they were home grown. It really makes the experience of eating it that much more appreciated!

"When native peoples migrated into Florida from Alabama and Georgia in the late 1700s and early 1800s, they brought along pumpkin seeds.
These pumpkins "had long been adapted to these southeastern Indians' gardening practices," according to Seminole historian Patsy West. "The vines grew up the tree, onto the bare limbs, and the ripened fruit hung down, out of reach of livestock and rot."

Early non-native arrivals to Florida wrote of finding squash hanging from trees. The Creek word for them, chassahowitska, means "hanging pumpkin."

In the 1850s, pumpkins played a role in the Third Seminole War. Chief Holata Micco, called Billy Bowlegs, "had tried to keep the peace when the U.S. Army occupied Florida to try to round up the last remaining Seminoles," historian Jim Robison writes.

"When Army surveyors trashed the chief's pumpkins and the rest of his garden and stole stalks of bananas, he demanded money and an apology."

After the chief was ignored, he responded with a raid in December 1855 that killed two men and wounded four others, igniting two years of skirmishes. "Fried pumpkin bread was one of the foods that kept the Seminoles going during those war years," Robison writes.

^^Credit to Joyce Wallace Dickinson, Orlando Sentinel
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