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Hold off before throwing that porch pumpkin into the trash along with Halloween candy wrappers. Those jack-o’-lanterns don’t have to end up in the local landfill.

Consider composting pumpkins in the garden, donating them to community gardens, farms or even a zoo, or simply leaving them as a snack for backyard wildlife.

What is your pumpkin plan? In other words, what do you do with them once Halloween is over? You’re not gonna take it off the porch and try to make pie, are you? No…most people just throw them out. Well, let’s change that this year.

Find your closest drop-off. Those pumpkins will then go to farmers in order to feed their pigs…or other animals that like to chow down on pumpkins.

HILLSBORO, Ky. (WKYT) – With Halloween around the corner, many of you have pumpkins to decorate. But what do you do with the pumpkins after?

Well, there is a place in Kentucky where you can donate them and make some animals happy in the meantime.

(WFXR) — The candy has been handed out, the costumes are put away, and now you have to clean up the decorations — including the pumpkins.

One option: supplying the pumpkin seeds to the Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center. The center asks that you do not prepare the seeds with oil or salt. Instead, leave them plain.