BOISE, Idaho — Garden master Jim Duthie shows us something different that you might want to consider growing next year. Gourds! They’re members of the squash family, and for the most part, people ...

The Swarts Ruin, located within the Mimbres Valley in southwestern New Mexico, came to the attention of the public in the 1920s when Cornelius and Harriet Cosgrove, self-trained archaeologists, began ...

Chris Pawlik designs and embellishes gourds, turning them into amazing three-dimensional works of art. I met the award-winning gourd artist at this year's Belle Isle Art Fair, where I was immediately ...

The gloriously carved and masterfully painted vases, lampshades, sculptures, wind chimes and more that self-taught artist Janet Bratcher makes from hard-shell gourds bear little resemblance to the ...

When a friend gave Carol Ann Short a gourd, she didn't realize it would add a new dimension to her volunteer work as a Montgomery County Master Gardener. Short has been raising gourds for four years ...

There are two kinds of gourd-sculpting techniques. The first method employs specially made steel needles in different sizes, engraving the patterns in thin lines on the surface of the gourds, and then ...

Gourd carving – a traditional art form that involves carving various patterns and characters on gourds by using knives and needles – has been attracting widespread attention in Linshu county, in Linyi ...