Strange

Last Halloween, I went to an outdoor community event. It was a celebration of arts and living off the land. I posted about this briefly a few months back. Musicians, dancers, animators , and visual artists gathered at a nearby farm. It was a really great event. One of the farmers brought a very strange vegetable which I had never seen before. I don't remember the name of the vegetable. He had several crates of it and was selling it at a stand. People flocked to the stand and bought them by the bagful. That made me more curious about what it might taste like. By the time I got to the vegetable stand, all of the strange veggies were gone. Does anybody know what this is?

As you can see in the picture, the vegetable was also popular with the local wildlife.