Halloween Apple Folklore, Pumpkin Pie History & The Great Pumpkin Smash! 🎃 Part 2

🎃 Halloween Horticulture: Spooky Plant Traditions, Historic Pumpkin Pie & the Pumpkin Smash!

What do apples have to do with predicting your future spouse? Why was rosemary believed to protect against evil spirits? And how did people make pumpkin pie in colonial times? 🌿🍎

On this episode of Along the Rock, host Kierstyn Long welcomes Bruce J. Black from Illinois Extension for a Halloween-themed horticulture adventure exploring the fascinating history behind apples, herbs, pumpkins, and spooky seasonal traditions.

Plus, discover the Third Annual Pumpkin Smash at Sauk Valley Community College! 🎃 Learn how you can help keep pumpkins out of landfills while enjoying pumpkin-smashing fun with a medieval-style trebuchet, a battering ram, a pumpkin piñata, and family-friendly educational activities.

📅 Pumpkin Smash
Saturday, November 7
10 a.m. to noon
📍 Sauk Valley Community College
🎟️ Free and open to the public!

Bring your carved, painted, or whole pumpkins and gourds. Just remember to remove candles, glitter, and anything that won't naturally decompose.

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🎤 Highlights:

00:00 Welcome to Along the Rock

00:31 Apples and Halloween Traditions

00:56 The History of Bobbing for Apples

01:49 Apple Folklore and Finding Your Future Spouse

03:47 How Folklore Shapes Halloween Traditions

04:38 Gardening Experiments and Lessons Learned

05:21 Herbs, Plants and Halloween Superstitions

06:41 Plants, Culture and Halloween History

07:52 Apple Folklore and Halloween Urban Legends

08:34 Halloween Horticulture Trivia

09:04 Colonial Pumpkin Pie: True or False?

09:30 How Colonial-Era Pumpkin Pie Was Made

10:48 Recreating a Traditional Pumpkin Dessert

11:28 Making Pumpkin Custard at Home

12:42 Introducing the Pumpkin Smash Event

13:16 Why Recycling Pumpkins Matters

13:51 How the Pumpkin Smash Works

15:04 Last Year's Pumpkin Smash Results

16:26 A Medieval Trebuchet for Smashing Pumpkins

17:24 Pumpkin Pinata and Other Smash Stations

18:34 Turning Pumpkin Smashing into Compost

19:05 Pumpkin Smash Event Details

19:47 Family-Friendly Activities and Education

20:18 The Pumpkin Smash: An Environmental Rage Room

21:26 Smashing Pumpkins as a Stress Reliever

21:58 Looking Ahead to the Thanksgiving Horticulture Special

22:09 Thanks for Watching

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