PERU, Ind. -- Most people use gourds for fall decorations or crafting. Not Ron Luginbill. Give the 72-year-old Peru resident a gourd, and a few weeks later, he'll have turned it into an exquisitely ...

These are seeds for Birdhouse Gourds, also known as Calabash or Buddha Squash. You get at least 10 seeds, and they're fresh, ...

Such a gardener is Arthur Stephens of the Richmond Indigenous Gourd Orchestra. He’s not looking for chaste gourds; he wants ones that whisper, “I’m a shakere” and “Make me your mbira.” When Stephens ...

Latrobe Valley folk musician Penelope Swales was talking with a guitar maker about the difficulties in being paid for the time spent on the craft before the focus turned to a gourd she had bought from ...

This is the season when autumnal displays surround us. Decorative gourds seem to appear overnight, as if beamed down from an alien spacecraft: striped, speckled, warted, and winged. Bright bursts of ...

Across many rural areas in Africa, including parts of West Africa, communities use bottle gourds as water storage solutions ...