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2017 News & Photos

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2017 VGPGA crew
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at Sam Mazza's in Colchester, 09/23/2017


        We had an awesome weigh-off on September 23rd with beautiful sunny skies and a great turn out.  Matt Debacco from Rocky Hill, CT took top honors with a 1435 lbs lunker.  Several growers set personal bests:
Wendy Paterson 1315 lbs. (2nd Place)
Dale Duffy 1256 lbs. (3rd Place)
Steve Minor 1154 lbs. (4th Place)
Huey Cadieux 927 lbs. (7th Place)
Aaron Messier 587 lbs (First weigh-off)  
 
Great job everyone who got a pumpkin to the scales.  And congratulations to our "Guess the weight" pumpkin winner, Sydney Tran from Burlington (see below).
 
 

"Guess the weight" winner Sydney Tran.
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Missed the weight (310 lbs) by only 2 lbs. She loves her pumpkin!

Link to photos from VGPGA weigh-off (need Chrome Browser).

Winner of 2017 VGPGA weigh-off in Colchester, VT
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Matt Debacco from Rocky Hill, CT - 1435 lbs!

Annual Winter Meeting held in Barre, VT at the Comfort Inn on Saturday February 4th, 2017.

2017 Winter Meeting Minutes (best viewed with Chrome):

Annual Summer BBQ and Patch Tour held at the Cadieux's in East Poultney, VT on Saturday August 5th, 2017.

Link to the Board meeting minutes from the summer meeting.

Link to our 2017/18 auction on-line seed auction hosted on BigPumpkins:

2017 VGPGA Pumpkins

2017 VGPGA Squash

2017 VGPGA Long Gourds

2017 VGPGA Watermelon

2017 VGPGA Field Pumpkin

2017 VGPGA Tomato

Vermont Giant Pumpkin Growers
The Green Mountian State
Retrofitted in 2011!