They Dumped 60 Tons of Culled Pumpkins on a Kid's Land—Six Months Later Farmers Lined Up for a Pound

Sixty tons of culled pumpkins came thundering out of four trailers onto a nineteen-year-old's field in Illinois, and the whole town of Cedar Fork was sure young Jesse Corliss had made a terrible mistake. What did the boy see in that rotting orange hill that nobody else could, and what would the next spring ask of him? This farm story follows an American farmer through a jolly cannery owner, a stubborn debt, a leaking barn roof and a long winter of patient work. If you enjoy waste to wealth tales, rural life and old-fashioned know-how, you are in the right place. This is a fictional story created for entertainment, and the farming ideas in it are inspired by real agricultural practices. Please subscribe for a new story every week, and tell us in the comments where you are watching from.