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Fall at the Quesnel Farmers’ Market

The second-to-last outdoor market of the season featured the annual Giant Pumpkin Contest

As the Quesnel Farmers’ Market winds down for the season, the Thanksgiving weekend market featured a wide variety of colourful vegetables for your Thanksgiving feast and a Giant Pumpkin Contest.

The Giant Pumpkin Contest is a highlight each year, and on Saturday, Oct. 12, Cariboo Valley Farms won the 2019 edition with a 153-pound pumpkin. Koster’s Farm and Garden was second with a pumpkin that weighed 126 pounds, and Lenz Jean Francois was third with a 68.8-pound pumpkin. This year’s results were a reversal of the 2018 contest, when Dave Koster of Koster’s Farm and Garden narrowly beat Cariboo Valley Farms in sudden-death overtime with a pumpkin that weighed 177 pounds.

There will be one more chance to enjoy the Quesnel Farmers’ Market outdoors this fall, with the final market taking place Saturday, Oct. 19 from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Helen Dixon Grounds.

After that, indoor markets will be held Nov. 30, Dec. 7 and Dec. 14.

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