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Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator
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While gourds have been used by humans for well over ten thousand years, they have only recently been rediscovered by the art and craft community.
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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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The birds were cooked and stored in containers made from hollowed out bull kelp or gourds and the hot fat from the cooking sealed in the meat so it would keep for months and sometimes up to two years.
Gourds are used in making dippers, spoons, ladles, salt and sugar containers, and many other kinds of household utensils.
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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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This design is based on the gourds of herbs and medicines carried by traditional Chinese healers as they traveled around the countryside.
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Sarah Kennedy,
Fashion Model
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Gourds grown off the groundnwill be more uniform in size and color, and possibly escape insect blemishes.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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Gourds were a part of ancient legends, myths and rituals, and were sometimes worn by priests as masks during religious ceremonies.
Gourds is Gravy Gourds throughout history have been tied up in the stories, myths and superstitions of many peoples.
This is an intimate portrayal of a remarkable artist who takes dried gourds from Georgia and Africa and transforms them into colorful narratives about the American and African cultures.
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Chrissie Tanner,
Homemaker and Mom
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Gourds cooked faster with lids made of a small squares of clear glass rather than dark lids, which sacrificed some level of B Vitamins in some foods.
Gourds have climbing vines and should be grown near fence or trellis to keep them off the ground.
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Borg Svemann,
Woodworker
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Gourds grows well in hot and humid regions, but can be grown in northern regions if seeds are started indoors.
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Athena Mondale,
Spiritual Consultant
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Gourds afford artists the unique possibility of transforming a natural object into an object of art.
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