HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — A Minnesota horticulture teacher remained the reigning champion Monday of an annual pumpkin-weighing contest in Northern California where his massive gourds have won the top ...

Travis Gienger attends the weigh-in for his 2,749-pound gourd at the 2023 World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off. Miramar Events Travis Gienger is a talented gourd-grower, and he’s used to earning ...

Good gourd, it's one giant pumpkin! A 43-year-old Minnesota educator can now boast he's grown the heaviest pumpkin on earth. Travis Gienger, a horticulture and landscape teacher at Anoka Technical ...

Travis Gienger is the Michael Jordan of giant pumpkins: the greatest of all time. The stone craftsman, horticulture teacher and gourd whisperer from Anoka, Minnesota set the world record last year by ...

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — A Minnesota horticulture teacher remained the reigning champion Monday of an annual pumpkin-weighing contest in Northern California where his massive gourds have won the top ...

Horticultural teacher Travis Gienger brings gourd – dubbed Michael Jordan – across country for California contest A Minnesota horticultural teacher set a new world record for growing the heaviest ...

A century from now Travis Gienger could be presumed to be a folklore legend like Paul Bunyan. Hailing from the Halloween Capital of the World, hauling his world record pumpkin to the Pumpkin Capital ...

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. -- A Minnesota man won his third Half Moon Bay pumpkin weigh-off, taking home $30,000 in prize money, officials said on Monday. Travis Gienger squashed the competition at the ...

Travis Gienger stood on the stage smiling and dressed in an orange jacket as an enormous blob of a pumpkin lay flat on a scale in front of him. Officials had just given the ginormous gourd the ...