If you celebrated Halloween on the weekend, like Ken and Shannon on Regent Street in Richmond (pictured), then you’ve likely got lots of pumpkins starting to rot away on your doorstep this morning.
You could, of course, chuck them into your green bin for the city to pick up in a week or two.
Whether Ken and Shannon’s giant home-grown pumpkins – at 490 and 300 pounds – would fit in the green bin is quite another matter.
But if you can hold onto them until this weekend, the Richmond Firefighters Charitable Society is once more hosting its Great Pumpkin Drop at Steveston Fire Hall at 10011 No. 2 Rd.
The event takes place both Saturday, Nov, 6 and Sunday, Nov. 7 between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.
The City of Richmond composts the pumpkins, and all donations go back into the community.
If you can’t wait until the weekend, here’s a few other ideas:
1. Eat it
Yes, that is right. Pumpkins are packed with all kinds of nutrition. You can cook bake the pulp into a pie, make curried soup and/or keep the seeds for a snack. There are lots of recipe ideas online.
2. Compost it
Chop it up and mix it with your yard trimmings for your backyard compost, so you can grow even bigger pumpkins next year!
And if none of those options take your fancy, Food Waste Canada has some excellent ideas at Lovefoodhatewaste.ca
