Bred or Fare?'s Theme Song
“It's How You Fare” — official biography track
Come back soon.
Why I’m One of a Kind
Three things that make me different from every other kid in the Patch.
- I'm the only pumpkin that grew on the Bred or Fare plant. It made one fruit all season, and the fruit was me.
- My skin is lightly ribbed 8-10 soft bumpy stripes, fine crackly net pattern, wet shiny. No one else in the Patch feels like me. You've got to have a feel to know.
- My stem is thick green striped, healthy, firm, attached to main vine, slight corking. That's the handle you hold me by, and mine is a proper good one.
Verified against all 92 Pipsqueaks • Registry reading September 10, 2026
The Keeper of Shallow Taproot Island
Bred or Fare? was named for a pun on Fare lineage, grows in Shallow Taproot Island, Hobart WA, large green-yellow mottled pumpkin on soil, Ward Family Rescue, questioning if bred or fate. Today it reads as mottled green-yellow dense crackle with dark green stripes, yellow speckling, wet glossy, early transition with orange flecks. It weighs 10.55 lbs at the latest reading. It came up on the Bred or Fare vine. It grew in the Patchrealm of Shallow Taproot Island, and it went home at the Harvest Party on Sunday, October 4.
The Fare Clan
The Fares are the punks of the Patch. Most of them came up on Shallow Taproot Island, the weedy, fence-lined corner beside 206th Street, and many have no parent vine anyone can name. Their name started with a sticker that asked, “Bred or Fare?” Out by the thoroughfare a pumpkin can watch the traffic roll by, or keep company with Louie, the Rescue’s beloved horse and our very own ThoroughFare.
That is why they are scrappy, a little surly and proudly un-fancy: small green defenders of the Ward Family Rescue, bred for fare, not fear. Punks do not care much for royalty, so even the clan’s duke, Wellington, is named for Beef Wellington. Smashin’ calls himself the leader. The rest of the clan has opinions about that.
The whole clanBred or Fare?’s Patch Family
Bred or Fare? went home at the Harvest Party. Here are three more from the Patch it grew up in.
