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DESCRIPTION:Pumpkin season is coming to Binkley! Ever since the first orang
 e nugget rolled off the truck in 2017\, the Fordham Boulevard side of the 
 Binkley grounds has been transformed each fall into a gourd-filled pumpkin
 -y wonderland. We line both sides of the walkway (never obstructing it) an
 d use it as our base of operations.\n\n\nOur organically grown pumpkins co
 me from the Navajo Nation in New Mexico.\nThe region’s dry climate produ
 ces pumpkins of exceptional quality\, while the pumpkin harvest provides s
 easonal—and some full-time—employment for Navajo workers. The pumpkins
  are supplied through Pumpkin Patch Fundraisers USA\, an organization base
 d in Greensboro. I actually stopped by after last year’s sale to say hel
 lo to our contacts\, Dawn and Dana. I was astonished to find that its head
 quarters was a simple ranch farmhouse along a rural highway—not a tracto
 r-trailer\, or even a pumpkin\, in sight!\n\n\nAfter expenses\, our share
  benefits Chapel Hill’s Inter-Faith Council for Social Service (IFC)\, o
 ur community’s leading social-service and advocacy organization.\n\n\nTh
 e pumpkins arrive Saturday morning\, October 10. Although we will have som
 e hired unloaders\, we need all available volunteers to help unload the tr
 uck and arrange the patch. Once the sale begins\, the patch will be open f
 rom 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. six days a week and from 12:30 to 6:00 p.m. on
  Sundays\, continuing through Halloween. After the patch closes on Hallowe
 en\, any pumpkins that remain will be whisked away by local pig farmers—
 so nothing goes to waste.\n
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SUMMARY:The Pumpkin Patch 
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