Drying or curing will take four weeks or more for small gourds and three months or more for larger ones. You’ll know the gourds are sufficiently dried when the skin is hard and the seeds rattle ...

However, some gourd varieties are edible. Eating these lumpy, misshapen, and sometimes small gourds is often more work than it’s worth due to the tough exteriors with minimal edible flesh and ...

"After all these steps, the gourds are decorated by making incisions with a small knife. The incision removes the varnish and allows the light background to shine through. Painting by applying ...

the Kalenjin gourds, decorated gourd from the Kamba and tens of bulbous small and big ones from other tribes. Most of the calabashes were placed at the museum in 2007 after a countrywide ...

Gourds generally have a skin similar to winter squash and though they're often ornamental, some varieties are edible. F&W's guide to squash and gourds gives you the best chef-inspired recipes ...