Call for Volunteers: Pumpkins for the Planet
We are very excited to announce that we will again be working with 1-800-GOT-JUNK to divert a large number of carved and intact pumpkins in Ottawa South! Come help us with our most fun and inspiring event of the year!
Sign up
Individual volunteers: Fill in our volunteer form or use our webform to send us a message.
For farms who may wish to take carved pumpkins for their soil or their animals, please send them Farms sign up form.
Possible roles
Contacting Farms, Food Centres, Construction and Landscaping Companies (emailing and talking on the phone)
General Logistics (administrative tasks that can be done from home)
Social Media Promotion (making Facebook posts, designing posters, sending/sharing Tweets)
Collection Site (being a local drop-off point for pumpkins in your neighbourhood)
Local Driver (driving from collection sites)
Food Security (working to make sure intact pumpkins get to humans)
Pumpkin Lifter (help load pumpkins onto vehicles - AKA give me a date and time and I'll be there)
** We would love to sign up some partners who can help us transport pumpkins to farms. If your business or organization owns an insured dump truck or trailer and can help us deliver more pumpkins to farms we would be pleased to feature you in all of our Pumpkins for the Planet promotion.**
About Pumpkins for the Planet
This is a grassroots campaign which sees volunteers collect carved and intact pumpkins in Ottawa South and connect them with local farms and kitchens. In doing so, we both combat and raise awareness about food insecurity while diverting them from the City compost facility and the landfill.
