Christian Schmidt – Kostbare Kürbisprodukte

About Christian Schmidt – Kostbare Kürbisprodukte

Christian Schmidt has been growing cooking, ornamental, Halloween and oil pumpkins in Reisenberg since 2005 and turns the oil pumpkins into pumpkin seed oil and snacking seeds. In autumn, the fresh organic pumpkins are laid out for self-service in a pumpkin hut opposite the Reisenberg sports ground – according to the website, around the clock.

The farm is an agricultural family business at Furthacker 1, south of Vienna. According to the website, the seed oil is freshly pressed all year round and the snacking seeds are continually freshly roasted.

Pumpkins from the field

• Cooking pumpkins: Hokkaido, butternut, spaghetti, Long of Naples, Baby Muscat and Bal Kabagi, in the online shop usually around 2 euros per kilo
• Ornamental pumpkins in three sizes, 0.80 to 1.50 euros each depending on size
• Halloween pumpkins for carving, by weight
• all, according to the website, organically grown

From the seed

• Organic pumpkin seed oil from the farm's own oil pumpkins
• Organic pumpkin seeds roasted, salted, plain or ground
• Caramelised seeds with vanilla or vanilla-cinnamon flavour, 100 grams for around 3.70 euros
• Delicacies: pumpkin fruit spread, pumpkin seed pesto and pumpkin seed salt blends
• Hampers and gift boxes, the large box for around 25 euros

Where to get the products

• Pumpkin hut opposite the Reisenberg sports ground: self-service, 00:00–24:00
• At the farm at Furthacker 1 by telephone appointment
• at Gasthaus Schmidt at Hauptplatz 15 in Reisenberg
• at ADEG Schmutterer in Reisenberg, Sommerein and Trautmannsdorf
• in 28 BILLA branches between Vienna, Bruck an der Leitha and northern Burgenland, in the Baden district for example in Pfaffstätten (Wiener Straße 101), and according to the website also in BILLA PLUS stores
• in the online shop on the website

Under "Vom Kern zur Frucht" (from seed to fruit), the business provides videos on its website. A separate page tells the story of the pumpkin, from the mixed cultivation in Central America to its name, which comes from the Latin word for basket.

Automatically translated from German.

Compiled by our editorial team.