Natick Organic Farm Offers Proper Pumpkin Planning

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It might seem fresh and fearsome right now, but in
about a week people are going to start thinking about
dumping their once beloved jack O lantern. That's the final
fate of a billion pounds of pumpkins every year in
the US.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
I think the first thing to think about is before
all of that, you know, how many pumpkins are you
buying and things like that, and what are you going
to do with them?

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Nicki Wilson's with Native Community Organic Farm and says there's
plenty you can do to keep your pumpkin out of
the landfill. For one, think about eating some of it.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
You can dry the seeds out, you can roast them,
and then you've got pumpkins seas to eat.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Composting is never a bad idea, and plenty of farms
take pumpkins you don't want and use them as animal feed.
Nicki's farm doesn't do that, but she says their chickens
generally love pumpkin enough that if you scratch the surface
in a pattern, they'll start carving for you.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
So we did try that last year. It did. It
did kind of.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
They got a little too enthusiastic and began devouring Kyle
Shaffle Derbe Busy, Boston's news radio