The Great Pumpkin Pig-Out 🎃🐷

Saturday, October 17, 2026 at 1 PM
Rain Date: Sunday, October 18, 2026 at 1 PM
Cotton Branch Refuge Project | Leesville, South Carolina

Get ready for one of the most fun, relaxed, and ridiculously pumpkin-filled afternoons of fall at Cotton Branch.

It’s The Great Pumpkin Pig-Out, and we’re serving up a pumpkin feast for the entire farm!

Come spend the afternoon with the residents of Cotton Branch as we roll out the pumpkins and let the chomping begin. We’ll have plenty of pumpkins here, but we highly encourage you to bring one of your own and help us build the feast.

🎃 BRING A PUMPKIN!

Big pumpkin? Bring it.

Little pumpkin? Bring it.

That slightly weird pumpkin nobody picked at the pumpkin patch? We know some residents who would be very interested.

Pumpkins must be fresh, whole, uncarved, unpainted, and free of mold or decorations. Please do not bring pumpkins with glitter, wax, chemicals, candles, stickers, or anything else attached.

Pumpkin can be a wonderful seasonal treat for pigs, providing fiber along with nutrients like potassium and naturally occurring carotenoids such as beta-carotene. Just as important, rolling, pushing, cracking open, and demolishing pumpkins makes for some fantastic enrichment.

And watching a pig absolutely destroy a pumpkin is something everybody should experience at least once.

🍰 COME FOR DESSERT!

Have lunch first, then come spend the afternoon with us.

This is meant to be an easygoing fall afternoon, so we’ll have pumpkin baked goods, pumpkin pies, pumpkin cookies, and all kinds of pumpkin treats waiting for you.

We’re even making a special pumpkin sweet tea just for the occasion.

We’ll also have water and soda available, so grab something sweet, find a spot to relax, visit with the residents, and enjoy the afternoon.

No rushing. No complicated schedule.

Just animals, pumpkins, dessert, fall weather, and a whole lot of pig chaos.

🐷 Meet the residents
🎃 Help us create a farm-wide pumpkin feast
🍪 Enjoy pumpkin pies, cookies, and baked goods
🥤 Try our special pumpkin sweet tea
📸 Take some wonderfully ridiculous fall photos
🍂 Spend a relaxed afternoon at the refuge
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 All ages welcome

Bring the kids. Bring your friends. Bring Grandma.

Most importantly...

BRING. A. PUMPKIN. 🎃

Come help us make this the biggest Great Pumpkin Pig-Out Cotton Branch has ever seen.

Rain plan: If weather forces us to postpone on Saturday, October 17, the event will move to Sunday, October 18 at 1 PM.

The Great Pumpkin Pig-Out 🎃🐷

Sweet Treats for You. Pumpkins for Them.