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\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tWhat started as a family tradition has grown into a full-blown fall destination in North Troy.Chantel Gonyer runs Chantel\u2019s Creative Creations \u2014 a roadside pumpkin stand featuring more than 50 varieties of gourds and a rotating collection of massive hay sculptures.Her brother and father help with the heavy lifting, but Chantel\u2019s the driving force \u2014 bundling thousands of hay bales by hand to build dragons, turtles, and even a life-sized mammoth!It hasn\u2019t been an easy season. A bee infestation and drought nearly derailed this year\u2019s harvest, but Chantel kept going \u2014 for the kids, the visitors, and the nursing home residents who say it\u2019s the highlight of their fall.\u201cThat is what it\u2019s about for me,\u201d she says. A love for pumpkins, sure\u2026 but more than that, a love for her town \u2014 shared with every person who stops to take a look.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\tNORTH TROY, Vt. \u2014<\/strong> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\nWhat started as a family tradition has grown into a full-blown fall destination in North Troy.<\/p>\n
Chantel Gonyer runs Chantel\u2019s Creative Creations \u2014 a roadside pumpkin stand featuring more than 50 varieties of gourds and a rotating collection of massive hay sculptures.<\/p>\n
Her brother and father help with the heavy lifting, but Chantel\u2019s the driving force \u2014 bundling thousands of hay bales by hand to build dragons, turtles, and even a life-sized mammoth!<\/p>\n
It hasn\u2019t been an easy season. A bee infestation and drought nearly derailed this year\u2019s harvest, but Chantel kept going \u2014 for the kids, the visitors, and the nursing home residents who say it\u2019s the highlight of their fall.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is what it\u2019s about for me,\u201d she says. A love for pumpkins, sure\u2026 but more than that, a love for her town \u2014 shared with every person who stops to take a look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PUMPKINS … THEY CARVE … EAT … AND EVEN DROP THEM FROM NEARLY 200 FEET. NOTHING SAYS “FALL”…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":319871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[648,1032,160393,160379,160380,160381,160394,1033,138712,44443,6772,171,160389,160392,160388,2327,160391,160382,4818,49770,160383,160384,160385,160390,160386,25467,67,132,68,2742,160387],"class_list":{"0":"post-319870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-bee-infestation","11":"tag-ben-frechette","12":"tag-chantel-gonyer","13":"tag-chantels-creative-creations","14":"tag-creative-creations","15":"tag-design","16":"tag-destination","17":"tag-dragon","18":"tag-drought","19":"tag-entertainment","20":"tag-fall-lover","21":"tag-father-help","22":"tag-giant-hay-sculpture","23":"tag-hand","24":"tag-hay-bale","25":"tag-hay-sculptures","26":"tag-love","27":"tag-nbc5","28":"tag-north-troy","29":"tag-northeast-kingdom","30":"tag-pumpkin-stand","31":"tag-small-vermont-town","32":"tag-this-is-our-home","33":"tag-thousand","34":"tag-united-states","35":"tag-unitedstates","36":"tag-us","37":"tag-vermont","38":"tag-wptz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115409376223716618","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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