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PFP Turns Your Jack-O-Lanterns Into Animal Food
Pumpkins For Pigs is working to keep your pumpkins out of landfills and get them into the bellies of farm animals. This program aims to connect people with unwanted pumpkins — as long as they’re...
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Ready to toss out your pumpkins? Here’s how to keep them out of the landfill.
From October to December, Pumpkins For Pigs connects community members across the country with local farms, so their leftover pumpkins can be used for animal feed. / Pumpkins For Pigs. The U.S....
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Pumpkin Pollution is a Problem – Here’s What You Can Do
Tossing jack-o-lanterns in landfills generates harmful methane gas, but there's a better way to get a second life out of your decorative gourds. More than one billion pounds of pumpkins are grown in...
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4 Ways To Get Rid Of Your Halloween Pumpkin (Besides A Landfill)
Here’s why you should never throw your carved Halloween pumpkin in a landfill — and what you can do with it instead. "One big misconception we hear a lot in the community is that people think that all...
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Your Decaying Pumpkins Are Basically Methane Bombs. Here’s How to Recycle Them
Whether you carved your pumpkin into a Jack-O’-Lantern or just left it on the stoop, it’s time to come up with a disposal plan. We’ve got you covered with a few planet-friendly options. Halloween has...
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Leftover Pumpkins? Make Pigs Squeal With Delight
AUSTIN, Texas -- The trick-or-treaters are gone, but that doesn't mean your jack-o'-lantern has to be sent to the trash after Halloween. To help the environment, a conservation group is encouraging...
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PFP Finds Second Use for Decorative Pumpkins on the Farm
A software developer by day, Jennifer Seifert has spent her life farm-adjacent — living in rural areas and frequenting farmers markets but never owning a farm. That changed in 2017. “So every year,...
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Farm to Fork Interview
Farm to Fork is a nationally-syndicated radio program dedicated to the agriculture and food sectors and to the people who are connected with them. F2F airs on more than 225 radio stations across the...
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PFP Allows Virginians to Recycle Food for Porkers
If you are looking for something different to do with your leftover pumpkins this holiday season you can donate them to be recycled as food for porkers. Pumpkins for Pigs is a nationwide organization...
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Now that Halloween is Over, give your pumpkins a Last Hoorah
Before you pick up that crooked-toothed jack o’ lantern from your porch and toss it in the trash, why not explore four different ways you can keep the spirit of that wily, round thing around. If you...
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