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Neha Kulkarni grows competitive giant pumpkins in State College, Pennsylvania. She hauls a contender to regional weigh-offs every October, drawing on two decades in the patch. Kulkarni spent years as a landscape contractor while competing at agricultural fairs on weekends, and received an associate degree in automotive technology. She reports on cucurbits and pumpkins as a contributor to Biology Insights.