Friends Gloria Gay and Jeanie Dierwechter share a common bond: They love gourds. Both are members of the Pennsylvania Gourd Society, represent the organization every year at the Pennsylvania Farm Show ...

MIDDLETON — A decade ago, Middleton artist Chris Peters grew gourds in her garden. Peters had no idea what to do with the curved, hard-skinned fruit until she began communicating with other members of ...

MELBOURNE — Mother Nature provides a rich canvas of possibilities in the Arkansas hills. For one artist, it is the unobtrusive gourds growing on sprawling vines that call to her. She is known as The ...

Poppies and daisies leapt from the curved surface with a pastoral beauty. Dots in all different sizes and colors created a mosaic effect across the surface of another piece. Macramé, crocheted and ...