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Built by Salmon River welder Wayne Smith, it’s the length of a tractor trailer and uses compressed air to launch pumpkins skyward.
A tractor-trailor sized pumpkin cannon built by Salmon River welder Wayne Smith will be launching pumpkins over a kilometre at Chantelle's Cystic Fibrosis Pumpkin Blast held Oct. 28-29. - Contributed A sizeable portion of the pumpkins we see all around us this time of year are grown by the 29-year-old – owner of one of the two largest pumpkin farms in Atlantic Canada.“My father showed me some ground, said I could use that,” recalled Jennings.The next year, he grew 3,000 pumpkins and rented a strawberry hut from up the road to sell them roadside.This year, he grew 75 acres, averaging 1,800 pumpkins an acre.The average age of a farmer in Nova Scotia is 58.2 years .
As the fifth generation of his family toiling on this piece of earth overlooking the Bay of Fundy’s upper reaches, he had the “privilege” of learning the way of life from his grandfather, Cecil, and father, Glenn.When at 17 years old he wanted a truck, he built a 1973 Chevy one-ton from the axles-up.
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