Evergreen Pumpkin Smash combined carnage and composting

A crisp autumn sun was keeping the fading autumn colors around the old Bergen Meadow Elementary School cheery when Evergreen resident Matt Baldree pulled up with his family Nov. 7. The discolored jack-o’-lanterns they unloaded from the car seemed to be fading too.“We had two pumpkins, and when you’re at home with them, you’re like, ‘What do I do with these?’” Baldree says. “We wanted to be more responsible about how we disposed of them.”Fortunately, local nonprofits Evergreen Sustainability Alliance and Wild Aware were already at the school with the essential tools of the pumpkin disposal trade: rubber mallets, a catapult, and the ESA’s large compost bin for their community garden.Admittedly, maybe the mallets and catapult weren’t strictly necessary.

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