An owner of a southern Manitoba pumpkin patch says she's been overwhelmed with the outpouring of support after about 100 volunteers showed up to help her quickly harvest crops on her family farm before an early frost came during the weekend.

Melody Schwabe, who owns Schwabe Pumpkins in the rural municipality of St. Andrews, Man., alongside her husband George, said this summer's drought put the Interlake farm about a month behind schedule. They typically start picking in late August, she said.

"We've worked so hard to save everything, and everything is so far behind," Schwabe said in a tearful video posted to social media on Friday morning, referring to a frost that happened earlier in the week.

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