Old pumpkins make good soil

KEESEVILLE | When the carving, lighting and spooky glow is over, Halloween pumpkins can bring new life to compost piles. AdkAction has created Compost for Good options, so households can bring the stringy, scorched Jack-O-Lanterns, minus their candles or other ornaments, to a nearby compost facility. "When mixed with wood chips, sawdust, straw or other high-carbon materials, pumpkins can be turned into beautiful, life-sustaining compost. Chopping or smashing them into small pieces would also help the microbes out, but is not necessary," the local group said. There are numerous locations where people can drop off their used pumpkins this year: Lake Placid: Placid Earth Composting at Shipman Youth Center – pumpkins can be placed in a bin outside the shipping container at the Shipman Youth Center (by the basketball courts), Nov. 1 to Nov. 4. Saranac Lake: Blue Line Compost at the Common Ground Community Garden (on Old Lake Colby Road), on Nov. 5. between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Jay: Little Farmhouse Flowers, 593 Stickney Bridge Rd., Nov. 5 and 6, any time. Redford: River Valley Regeneratives, 36 Church St., Redford, any day, any time. Canton: LittleGrasse Farm, 309 Miner Street Rd. 9 a.m. until dark any day. Dropoff area will be clearly marked. Winthrop: Whitten Family Farm, 1101 County Rt. 49, any day, any time. Tupper Lake: The Hub, 320 Park St., any day, any time. The goal of the Adirondack Compost for Good project is to help Adirondack communities turn food and other organic "wastes" into high-quality compost. This process keeps nutrients in the community and out of our waterways, building local resilience, healing soils, and reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. For more information about community-scale composting contact AdkAction via email: compostforgood@adkaction.org, or go online: adkaction.org/compost.

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