Frias first won the Giant Pumpkin Weigh-Off, the festival’s main event, in 2009, which is also when he first began growing giant pumpkins. This year he grew the giant gourd in Napa for 180 days to achieve its final size, earning him a $7,000 prize along with bragging rights throughout Northern California pumpkin patches.

Leticia Ordaz reports from the Giant Pumpkin Festival in Elk Grove. Yahoo Personal Finance

A new pumpkin champion was named at the Topsfield Fair Friday, with a Massachusetts pumpkin taking home the top prize.

All New England Giant Pumpkin Weigh-Off at the Topsfied Fair has been won by a Sharon man whose 2,211-pound pumpkin gave him his fourth, first-place win. Steve Connelly won this year’s competition, which occurred on opening day at the fair on Friday,

Opening Day at the 206th Topsfield Fair features an annual favorite, the Giant Pumpkin weigh-off.The largest pumpkin ever entered at the fair, a New England autumn tradition since 1818, was a 2022 monster that weighed in at almost 2,