Pumpkin Pie in a Bag

Did you know the first pumpkins were grown in Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and Columbia? Pumpkins spread to what is now the northeastern U.S.A., where Native Americans ate pumpkin seeds and wove dried pumpkin into mats. When English colonists saw the strange new vegetable, they named it after a large melon, the French "pompon," and invented pumpkin pie inside the pumpkin shell. They filled it with milk, spices, and honey. At the garden on Thursday, Junior Gardeners made a modern version: pumpkin pie in a bag.