A Bradford farm shop which has 1,000 pumpkins on sale for Halloween, is running demonstrations and tastings for recipes from soup to cheesecake and seed-based snacks to help customers avoid waste after using them to mark the ghoulish event.

Cookery sessions are being held this week at the Brighouse and Denholme Road business as part a programme of free activities, including a kids’ ‘scary shed’, a pumpkin hunt, mask-making and a phantom disco. There are also prizes for the child with the best Halloween costume.

Victoria Robertshaw, Keelham Farm Shop co-owner, said: “We like to do Halloween the Keelham way, which means trying to be a bit different.

“We are helping customers to make an amazing tasting soup from the inside of their pumpkin as well as handing out other recipes which are tasty, as well as good for you.”

The firm will be asking for donations for Manorlands Hospice, Oxenhope.