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As for edible plants, some discoveries place the earliest cultivation of squash and bottle gourds at around 8000 BCE.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

They noted that bottle gourds could be an essential food security crop, but there has not been enough research into them.

From Salon • Nov. 19, 2022

In the northern Indian state of Haryana, Satbir Singh Jatain last month relinquished his bottle gourds to the elements, allowing them to rot on the vine rather than wasting the effort to harvest them.

From New York Times • Sep. 11, 2020

Collective farming also allows the women to diversify their crops and grow produce like eggplant, tapioca, okra, and bottle gourds to bolster their food security.

From Slate • Feb. 15, 2019

The other was a tunnel of dangling bottle gourds in the garden of the American gardener and writer Amy Goldman Fowler.

From Washington Post • May 16, 2017