Gentry and her family live off the food they grow as much as possible and any excess is placed straight into the community.
The family drop off pumpkins at Ngunguru's community free-food stall, where she said they are, "gone in half an hour."
"We're really aware of how [hard] living is for a number of people and families and that whole conversation about the cost of living. We get told there's a pending food crisis.
"So we wanted people to make the most of them," she said.
Soaring food costs have put pressure on Northland families, with annual food prices hitting a 10-year high in March, according to Stats NZ data.
The latest Food Price Index figures show fruit and vegetables rocketed up 9.4 per cent in April, compared to the same month last year.
Gentry has also donated pumpkins to Hare Krishna Food For Life Northland, which provides food relief to the Northland community.
"Some of them are so huge they're the sort you put an axe through and feed four families for two weeks.
"They just keep giving and giving," she said.
Gentry even hands them out on the sidelines of her kids' soccer matches in Ngunguru.
The report concluded that Foodstuffs and Countdown operated effectively as a duopoly, driving up food prices for New Zealanders.
This month Consumer NZ launched a petition calling on Minister David Clark to put consumers first and address the major supermarkets' excessive profits in times of rising costs.