A Smashingly Good Time Set For Beverly's New Entry Farm

BEVERLY, MA — A full-size working trebuchet, two enormous smash boards and a "pumpkin guillotine" are among the ways Beverly residents will be able to blast their Halloween pumpkins into bits next weekend.

The second Great Pumpkin Smash will be on Nov. 6 at New Entry Farm at 733 Cabot Street where a thousand folks or more will crush their pumpkins to crumbles between 1 and 4 p.m.

Green Beverly and the New Entry Sustainable Farming Project are hosting the event to promote the value and importance of composting as they hurl spent pumpkins into a giant compost pile with the custom-designed trebuchet.

Along with the gouging of the gourds, there will be local food and beer, as well as lawn games and live music.

Beverly contractor Matthew Trumbull of Red Wagon Home built the smash boards along with Green Beverly interns from Endicott College Charlie Arinello and Cameron Connelly.

Vendors include Butter Ur Biscuit, Channel Marker Brewing, Old Planters Brewing Co., Kim Gregory's Pure Pastry and Source Bakery.

The Splinters will be playing bluegrass and Americana music. There will be free apple cider donuts, cider and coffee and a photo shoot with a professional photographer from Endicott College.

Black Earth will have information on the benefits of composting as well.

More information on the event can be found here.

(Scott Souza is a Patch field editor covering Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Salem and Swampscott. He can be reached at Scott.Souza@Patch.com. Twitter: @Scott_Souza.)