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EXHIBITION: Pumpkins Galore

EXHIBITION: Pumpkins Galore www.galerie.juckerfarmart.ch

Jona, on now till November 7, 2010

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Not far from Zurich, thousands of pumpkins – not just to look at but to eat and buy – are on display at the Jucker Farm with a special exhibition of life-size pumpkin dinosaurs.

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