John Polk wrote:Yeah. 500++ pounds of pumpkins would feed a lot of livestock, plus give you enough seeds to do your own patch next year. Who cares if they are "Jack-o-lantern" quality when you have hungry livestock?
A couple years ago, my wife went to a church that had set up a "pumpkin patch" by trucking in several hundred pumpkins and arranging them on the lawn for folks to come buy.
Halloween passed, and of course not every pumpkin got bought, so the church had a hundred or two unwanted pumpkins. And since they weren't actually a farm, and it wasn't actually a pumpkin patch, they didn't have anyhing useful to do with them or anywhere to put them.
So they were just tickled when she offered to take some away.
We haven't done it again, but that's partly because we still have a few jars of canned pumpkin on the shelf and don't want more. :) But I imagane it will be a pretty reliable, repeatable plan, if you can make the timing work out.