{"id":2547,"date":"2021-10-24T10:47:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T14:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karenmillar.com\/blog\/?p=2547"},"modified":"2021-10-24T10:47:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-24T14:47:20","slug":"pumpkins-for-wild-life-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karenmillar.com\/blog\/pumpkins-for-wild-life-in-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"Pumpkins for wild life in Toronto?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"632\" src=\"http:\/\/www.karenmillar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/pumpkins-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.karenmillar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/pumpkins-1.jpeg 960w, https:\/\/www.karenmillar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/pumpkins-1-300x198.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.karenmillar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/pumpkins-1-768x506.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Just saw this. Not sure we can do this in Don Mills ravines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t throw away pumpkins after Halloween. Find woods or a field near you, smash them open and leave for the wildlife to eat. Pumpkin is safe for them and the seeds act as a natural dewormer. (Be sure to break them up so the deer don\u2019t get their head stuck inside!) 2.5 billion pumpkins produced, only one fifth gets reused. The rest end up decaying in landfills. So recycle those pumpkins to the wildlife (or even to a wildlife rehab if there\u2019s one near you)\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" alt=\"\ud83c\udf83\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t86\/1\/16\/1f383.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" alt=\"\ud83c\udf83\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t86\/1\/16\/1f383.png\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.evokewellness.uk\/?fbclid=IwAR1tqne62DfpTI5F39Wn2ESBIdpr_2qxOYG8J4IVlvA60phaym5dpB6P4A8\" target=\"_blank\">www.evokewellness.uk<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Would love to hear what you think!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Karen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just saw this. Not sure we can do this in Don Mills ravines. \u201cDon\u2019t throw away pumpkins after Halloween. Find woods or a field near you, smash them open and &hellip; [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.karenmillar.com\/blog\/pumpkins-for-wild-life-in-toronto\/\">read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1681,153,1738],"tags":[2850,325,7,2853,2461,2683,2852,126,620,2851,2817,2252],"class_list":["post-2547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-don-mills","category-toronto","category-toronto-food","tag-compost","tag-dmri","tag-don-mills","tag-don-river","tag-don-valley","tag-dont-mess-with-the-don-2","tag-donvalley","tag-karen-millar-team","tag-pumpkins","tag-toronto-compost","tag-toronto-pumpkins","tag-toronto-wild-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenmillar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenmillar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenmillar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenmillar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenmillar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenmillar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2549,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenmillar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547\/revisions\/2549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenmillar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenmillar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenmillar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}