A whole butternut is heavy, cheap, and everywhere in October, so it's a bad thing to mail. What's worth ordering is the squash that's already been worked on: oil pressed from the seeds, purees with nothing but squash in the jar, dried cubes that keep a year, and butter cooked down the slow way.
Published July 2026 · Updated 7 Jul 2026
They grow oilseed pumpkins on Finger Lakes farms, then roast and cold-press the seeds into a dark green culinary oil that tastes nutty and toasted, closer to a good walnut oil than anything you'd cook with. They also bag flavored pepitas like Maple and Sweet Chili Butternut. Almost nobody in the US presses culinary oil from 100% American-grown pumpkin seed; most of what's on shelves is imported Styrian oil.
Why it isn't on AmazonPumpkin seed oil is a finishing oil you drizzle, not a jug you buy at the grocery store, and the domestic-pressed kind barely exists outside of small makers like this one.
See it at Stony Brook WholeHeartedFoods →A family farm that grows pumpkin and butternut without chemical sprays and cans the puree in glass with nothing added. It's the direct-from-the-farm answer to a can of pumpkin, where you actually know whose field it came from. Good for pie, soup, or anything a recipe calls a can of puree.
Why it isn't on AmazonCanned pumpkin at the store is anonymous, often a blend, and usually not the variety on the label. Here it's one farm's squash in a jar.
See it at Beiler Family Farm →Family-run in northern Wisconsin since the mid-1980s, air-drying butternut so a single pound rehydrates to roughly six pounds of squash. It ships light, keeps over a year in the cupboard, and drops straight into soups and stews. This is the form that makes squash a pantry staple instead of a thing that rots on the counter.
Why it isn't on AmazonYou can't buy shelf-stable dried butternut at a normal grocery store, and the weight-to-yield math is the whole point of ordering it dried instead of fresh.
See it at North Bay Trading Co. →A multi-generation orchard in Amish-country Pennsylvania that cooks pumpkin butter the old way, down to four things: pumpkin, apple cider, cinnamon, and lemon. No corn syrup, no gums, no pumpkin-spice-latte fillers. Free shipping to the lower 48.
Why it isn't on AmazonGrocery pumpkin butter is mostly sugar and thickener with a little squash. A short-ingredient version cooked at a farm is a different food.
See it at Kauffman Orchards →Spiced pumpkin-apple butter made by hand in small batches, squash-forward rather than the plain puree you'd bake with. It's a preserve to spread, not a baking ingredient, and it comes from an actual small producer instead of a co-packed grocery label. Free domestic shipping over $49.
Why it isn't on AmazonThis is a spread, not a can of puree, and the small-batch versions don't turn up on supermarket shelves.
See it at Hearth and Pantry →This seat's open on purpose — we won't pad the list to hit a number. If you ship real winter squash direct, it's earned, not sold.
Add your brand →It's a dark, thick, deeply toasted-nutty oil, closer to walnut oil than to a cooking oil. Use it as a finisher: drizzle over roasted squash, soup, vanilla ice cream, or salad. Don't fry with it. Heat kills the flavor you paid for.
Yes, if it's a single-ingredient puree with no added water or sugar. Butternut is often sweeter and smoother than field pumpkin, which most canned 'pumpkin' actually is. If the puree seems wet, drain or cook it down a bit so your custard sets.
Drop it straight into a simmering soup or stew and it rehydrates as the pot cooks, usually in 20 to 30 minutes. To use it on its own, cover with hot water or broth for about 20 minutes. A pound of dried squash comes back to several pounds of usable squash, so measure small.
Puree is just cooked, blended squash, an ingredient. Pumpkin butter is that puree cooked down slowly with cider and spice until it's thick and spreadable, a finished condiment. You bake with puree; you spread butter on toast, oatmeal, or biscuits.
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