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Article: Gourds: for homesteaders and gardeners.
- Article from:
- Countryside & Small Stock Journal
- Article date:
- September 1, 2007
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There is a legend that says, "If you give or receive a gourd, with it goes all the best in life; health, happiness and other good things."
From the beginning of human history people have grown gourds as containers or vessels before clay or stone pottery and gourds are sometimes referred to as "nature's pottery." The ancients used gourds to store wet and dry goods as milk and butter containers, water dippers, cups and all types of bowls, to haul items and as cooking and eating utensils. The original shapes of clay pottery is thought to have been modeled on the shapes of certain gourds to make grain storage containers and musical instruments, such as rattles, ...