Introducing our 2024 pumpkin partners
As pumpkins start to decorate front steps across Ottawa South, OSEAN is gearing up for the next phase of their vegetable lives…feeding hungry humans, hungry animals, and acting as land remediation. You can learn more about Pumpkins for the Planet (including how to vounteer!) on its dedicated webpage. As we prepare for the incoming gourds, we’d like to take a moment to introduce you to our our amazing Partners, collaborators and supporters who make this pumpkin dance possible!
We are excited to be working again with 1-800-GOT-JUNK?. It was a pleasure working with these reMOOval professional (see what we did there) last year. This year they have committed to filling THREE trucks and bringing them to three local farms. This generous commitment will make it possible for us to reach our goal to rehome and repurpose 2500 pumpkins this year!
We are thankful for the support of Riverside Park Community Association - RPCA, which is the neighbourhood that accepts the conversion of their local park into "Pumpkin Alley" for 5 days
Foodsharing Ottawa will be collaborating with us to make sure no intact pumpkin is left behind. With the help of their volunteers, all intact pumpkins will be delivered to local food centres so that it can help fill some bellies this November
Sweet William Farms and Local Gardening Services were instrumental and ridiculously hard working providing volunteer support with pumpkin shuttling. We look forward to collaborating again this year.
New this year, we are excited to welcome Lionhearts Inc. Ottawa who will be partnering with us to accept a ton (literally?) of intact pumpkins that they will be using to create delicious and nutritious meals for many residents in Ottawa. (They are looking for volunteers to help with processing and preparing the pumpkins: send them an email: ottawa@lionhearts.ca - tell them you want to help with pumpkins!)
New this year, we are are excited to collaborate with Gaia Organic Seeds who will help with volunteer support and will collect pumpkins from our "pumpkin graveyard" (pumpkins that aren't fit for animals or human consumption) and use them for soil / land regeneration!
