The Great Pumpkin Smash – St Cloud

UPDATE: Due to weather, event is happening today at 6pm

Instead of letting your old pumpkin haunt the landfill, have a fun & free time of breaking it down in creative ways in order to compost it!

Did you know that according to the US Department of Agriculture, over 1.5 billion pounds of pumpkins are produced annually in our country. We love a jack-o-lantern as much as anybody else but once Halloween is over, it tends to get moldy and goes straight into the trash. It does not just stop there, these pumpkins begin to haunt landfills by emitting methane, one of the catastrophic greenhouse gasses that furthers our current climate crisis. This is why The City of St. Cloud’s Parks & Recreation Department is starting an annual event called The Great Pumpkin Smash! A simple 2-hour event at Centennial Park the following Friday evening after Halloween where anybody and everybody is invited to come turn their old pumpkins into a green great time. Why trash a pumpkin when you can smash it!? We will have several methods for attendees to “smash” their pumpkins and then afterwards, we will turn the otherwise methane producing waste into a hearty and helpful compost. We will also be collecting leftover Halloween candy so we can send Treats for our Troops.