Sunday October 5, 2025 | LANGFORD, BC
by Mary P Brooke, UFRIS Executive Lead
After you’ve celebrated Thanksgiving with pumpkin pie or Halloween with jack-o-lanterns, your pumpkin is wanted by Mother Nature!
Save the pulp and seeds for baking or gardening, and put the rest into composting.
Compost options:
For raw pumpkins (not cooked), here are some compost options:
- The compost bin in your own backyard.
- The compost bins at local community gardens, including Porcher Park Community Garden in Langford.
- Green bin curbside pickup.
Porcher Park:
Porcher Park Community Garden wants your pumpkins for their composting system! Bring your pumpkins, squash and other gourds for composting … after Thanksgiving and after Halloween drop them off between October 15 and November 9, 2025.
Be sure to remove any candles, plastic or other non-organic material before delivering your pumpkin.
Local food gardeners (and Mother Nature) appreciate you doing this instead of the pumpkins being ‘smashed’ or rotting by the roadside.
Porcher Park Community Garden is at 828 Wren Place in downtown Langford.
Leave your ecologically-aware donation of pumpkins in the wooden box in the fruit tree area to the left of the fenced garden (Box #34).
Please do *not* bring regular yard waste. Porcher Park accepts only fresh organic garden leftovers.
Your donation of pumpkins, squash and other gourds will nourish the soil for next year’s crop of veggies by local gardeners at Porcher Park!
The Pumpkin Composting at Porcher Park Community Garden program is organized by Urban Food Resilience Initiatives Society.
Donations to Urban Food Resilience Initiative Society (UFRIS) are welcome by etransfer to info@urbanfoodresilience.ca . UFRIS will send you a non-charity receipt upon request (otherwise your etransfer confirmation is your receipt).
