Pick out your pumpkin at a landfill? Check out this year's new pumpkin patch

A landfill might not be the obvious place to celebrate fall and Halloween, but that's where you can pick up a pumpkin and take part in some other seasonal activities this year.

Posted 5:56 p.m. Oct 8, 2020 — Updated 5:56 p.m. Oct 8, 2020

Sarah Lindenfeld Hall

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WENDELL, N.C. — A landfill might not be the obvious place to celebrate fall and Halloween, but that's where you can pick up a pumpkin and take part in some other seasonal activities this year.

The new owner of the Shotwell C&D Landfill in Wendell has opened up a pumpkin patch to introduce itself to the local community and give back. Meridian Waste, the owner, will donate the proceeds from pumpkin sales, along with a match of the money raised, to local nonprofits, such as the Bailey and Sarah Williamson Farm & Nature Preserve and nearby Good Hope Baptist Church. Pumpkins will be available in three size categories with suggested donations of $5 for a medium, $10 for a large, and $15 for an extra-large pumpkin.

The patch also will offer some other seasonal activities, including pumpkin painting, pumpkin tic-tac-toe and hay rides touring the landfill. There also will be a touch-a-truck activity where kids can check out an environmental services truck yard display with heavy-duty, earth-moving equipment such as a compactor, excavator, bulldozer, articulated dump truck, and a new front-loader garbage truck for the collection of non-hazardous waste materials, according to a press release.

The pumpkin patch will be open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturdays, in October, at the landfill at 4724 Smithfield Rd., Wendell.

“We are committed to being good neighbors and stewards of the environment,” said Meridian Waste North Carolina Area President Josh Daher in a press release. “We are in the business of a clean and healthy environment, and the Charity Pumpkin Patch is our way of opening up our facility to the surrounding community to introduce Meridian Waste to the community and support wonderful causes while enjoying the changing seasons.”

More information is on Meridian Waste's website.

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