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Speaker 1: It might seem fresh and fearsome right now, but in

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Speaker 1: about a week people are going to start thinking about

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Speaker 1: dumping their once beloved jack O lantern. That's the final

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Speaker 1: fate of a billion pounds of pumpkins every year in

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Speaker 1: the US.

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Speaker 2: I think the first thing to think about is before

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Speaker 2: all of that, you know, how many pumpkins are you

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Speaker 2: buying and things like that, and what are you going

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Speaker 2: to do with them?

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Speaker 1: Nicki Wilson's with Native Community Organic Farm and says there's

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Speaker 1: plenty you can do to keep your pumpkin out of

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Speaker 1: the landfill. For one, think about eating some of it.

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Speaker 2: You can dry the seeds out, you can roast them,

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Speaker 2: and then you've got pumpkins seas to eat.

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Speaker 1: Composting is never a bad idea, and plenty of farms

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Speaker 1: take pumpkins you don't want and use them as animal feed.

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Speaker 1: Nicki's farm doesn't do that, but she says their chickens

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Speaker 1: generally love pumpkin enough that if you scratch the surface

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Speaker 1: in a pattern, they'll start carving for you.

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Speaker 3: So we did try that last year. It did. It

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Speaker 3: did kind of.

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Speaker 1: They got a little too enthusiastic and began devouring Kyle

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Speaker 1: Shaffle Derbe Busy, Boston's news radio