Animal Advocates' pumpkin seed campaign for Halloween! - Mary Cummins, Los Angeles, California

Animal Advocates' pumpkin seed campaign for Halloween, Mary Cummins, Los Angeles, California

Animal Advocates generally buys nuts and seeds to feed to some of our wildlife. We recently discovered that it takes an awful lot of water to grow nuts and seeds. Most nuts are grown in California where we have a horrible drought. We must do everything we can to save water.

Keeping with our goal of being as eco-friendly as we can, we've decided to collect the seeds from Halloween pumpkins. Most people throw these seeds into the trash or green recycling bin. Our goal is to save money on animal food, feed our wildlife and keep the seeds out of landfills. It's a win win win situation for Animal Advocates, wildlife and the environment.

When you carve your Halloween pumpkins we'd like to ask you to save the seeds for us. We will then clean and bake them so we can feed them to our animals. I will give more detailed information on how we will collect them in the next two weeks. If you can put them in a bag in your freezer to save them for us, that'd be great. I will figure out a way for us to collect them or a place where people can drop them off.

If you live too far away to give us the seeds, you can give them to your local wildlife rehabilitation facilities. There is a list here.

http://www.mary.cc/How%20To%20Locate%20a%20Wildlife%20Rehabilitator.html

If there is no rehab facility near you, here's a recipe so you can bake them yourself and eat them.

• Clean the pumpkin seeds to remove all bits of pumpkin flesh. I clean them in a collander.
• Put clean seeds in a bowl
• Add a tiny bit of oil of your choice and salt to your taste
• Mix the seeds well in the bowl so they are all evenly coated with oil and salt
• Preheat oven to 300 degrees
• Place seeds in a single layer on a cookie sheet or something similar. You can spray the sheet with Pam if you didn't use oil with the seeds.
• Bake for 45 minutes or until they turn golden brown
• Remove, cool and enjoy them!

Thanks so much from everyone at Animal Advocates!

http://www.AnimalAdvocates.us
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Mary Cummins of Animal Advocates is a wildlife rehabilitator licensed by the California Department of Fish and Game and the USDA. Mary Cummins is also a licensed real estate appraiser in Los Angeles, California.

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