MerrieBerries Pumpkin Junction

About the Book

Pumpkin Junction: Harvest Moon Luncheon is a poetry story book written by Jackie Christie.

About the Author

Jackie lives with her husband Jim on a small, organic farm outside of the City of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Jackie and Jim have started a small u-pick berry farm. Products from the farm are sold downtown in the City of Edmonton at the local Saturday outdoors farmers market.

The Christies grow pumpkins, apples, plums, cherries, currants, saskatoons and more in their farm orchards, as well as, pumpkins, vegetables, and other things. Jackie recently developed a number of edible fruit snacks made entirely of fruit and honey, which are now selling quite well at the farmers market.

Jackie wrote the pumpkin story for her three grandchildren. Colton (9 year old grandson), Spencer (8 year old granddaughter), and Silas (8 month old grandson), who arrived after the first book had already been written.

Over the last several years, the three grandchildren and their parents have lived from time to time with the grandparents on the farm. The children built a tree fort in the woods, with the help of their dad, and the family still comes very often to spend a weekend on the farm to watch the northern lights and roast wieners and marshmallows on the campfire. The grandchildren pick the fruit, but mostly they eat it all. For the really high fruits, like crabapples, Grandpa Jim lifts the grandchildren up in his tractor's front bucket, so they can pick the high branches.

The MerrieBerrie line of characters, including the pumpkin trio, is part of the Christies' future plans to introduce a line of MerrieBerrie xmas and other occasions' gift ornaments, MerrieBerrie t-shirts, and other novelties over the next few years with these MerrieBerrie characters.

Jackie has now written another two poetry stories in the MerrieBerrie line. The next MerrieBerries book is entitled MerrieCherries: Roly-Poly Race Day and after that, look for TipToe The Spider's Halloween Hall.