It’s a pumpkin feast for the animals at Kavanagh Farms in Shediac River.
Charlene Kavanagh put out a plea, looking for the public to donate their pumpkins after Halloween.
There was a location in each of the Tri-communities over the weekend, where pumpkins could be dropped off.
She says she was overwhelmed by the response, “Dieppe shocked me the most because I was running around five minutes late. When I got to Dieppe, there were around ten waiting with pumpkins. We had the truck full within ten minutes.”
They collected over 330 pumpkins this year.
“We feed the pumpkins to all of the critters, from the fowl to the ducks, sheep, the goats and the pigs. They are a really good source of deworming. So we don’t chemically deworm them. We do it using pumpkin and Christmas trees,” Kavanagh says.
She says they’ll have enough leftover pumpkin to freeze for months to come.
“We will keep those going probably until January, until Christmas trees start coming in. We also shared a truckload with another farmer down the road. We have three large freezers dedicated for pumpkin as well,” Kavanagh says.
(Photo: submitted)
