2005 - City of Guelph, ON
182 kg / 401.2 lbs

The City of Guelph's entry, a 182 kilogram golden beauty, is the pride of Guelph's composting team, led by Trevor Barton. The $500 prize will be donated to the Guelph Enabling Garden, a multi-use garden designed to accommodate gardeners of varying degrees of cognitive and physical ability.

Trevor Barton is pictured below with his award winning pumpkin!

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2004 - Lunenburg Regional Recycling and Compost Facility
184 kg / 405.7 lbs

The $500.00 Cheque was presented to David Daniels, Kevin Wentzell and the Lunenburg Recycling & Composting Facility for their 184 - kilogram winning pumpkin in the 3rd Annual Compost’s Giants growing contest.

Pictured from Left to Right are Tyrone Biljan, Composting Council of Canada; Kevin Wentzell, Lunenburg Recycling & Composting Facility; The Honourable Kerry Morash, Nova Scotia Minister of the Environment and Labour; Martin Tanner, Miller Composting; David Daniels, Lunenburg Recycling & Composting Facility; Barry Friesen, Chair - Composting Council of Canada.

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2003 - City of Kelowna
185 kg / 408 lbs

Beth Cavers, Organics Recycling Coordinator for The City of Kelowna, and her team grew the award-winning 185 kg (408 pounds) Giant Pumpkin as part of The Composting Council of Canada’s 2nd Annual Great Pumpkin Growing Contest.
Pictured is the award winning pumpkin in it's patch!

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2002 - David McCallum, Hanover, ON
272 kg / 600 lbs

McCallum grows ‘em big with compost and is the National Winner of the First Annual Great Pumpkin Growing Contest sponsored by The Composting Council of Canada. McCallum, who’s been a pumpkin growing hobbyist for a number of years, designated his $500 prize to the Walkerton Heritage Water Garden.

On hand to accept the cheque on behalf of the community and to marvel at David’s growing abilities were (from left to right): Tyrone Biljan,The Composting Council of Canada; Susan Antler, Executive Director, The Composting Council of Canada; Nancy Bajurney, President of Walkerton Horticultural Society; Councillor Audrey Webb; Don Moore, Chairman, Walkerton Heritage Water Garden; Mayor Dave Thompson, Town of Brockton; David McCallum, winner of the 1st Annual Great Pumpkin Growing Contest; Tom Hennessey, Miller Composting & Chair of Ontario Region, The Composting Council of Canada

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