WEST VALLEY CITY — A Salt Lake County farm is asking for leftover Halloween pumpkins.

Roots Charter High School , located at 2250 South 1300 West, also has a farm where students learn and help out down the street.

Right now, they’re accepting Halloween and holiday pumpkins, at any stage of rot, so they can feed them to their animals.

“This time of year, a lot of people are cleaning the beautiful pumpkins off their front porches,” said farm director Nysse Wilson. “A lot of times those are just going straight in the trash.”

Pumpkins can be left in the big, blue bins located outside the farm at any time of the day.

Roots Farm doesn’t accept bejeweled or painted pumpkins, but they do take rotting pumpkins or those with smoke inside.

They feed the vegetables to their animals. The five-acr

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