In the March-April 2023 issue of Small Farm Canada Helen Lammers-Helps covers a story about two sisters up-cycling pumpkins for their cattle. Here is an excerpt:
“Our livestock just love them,” said Cassidy who farms with her sister, brother and parents near New Hamburg, Ontario.
The sisters got the idea when they spotted a pumpkin drop-off box at the end of a farm lane while driving through another county. “Seeing this sparked the idea of collecting them in our area and that’s how the Pumpkin Drop began,” said Cassidy. She said they liked the idea of keeping the pumpkins from going to waste.
In 2022, they left the bin out for just over a week and collected a total of 300 pumpkins. Cassidy said more pumpkins were dropped off on the first day of collection in 2022 than in all of 2021.
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