It’s that time of year again! The time where the streets are littered with old Christmas trees. I find this unutterably depressing. Something that caused so much joy and wonder is just tossed out with the garbage. But, I’m not asking you to mulch your tree to keep me from getting gloomy, there are plenty of more pressing ecological reasons why you should do it. Take some time to search your community to see what kind of programs there are for old Christmas trees.
In NYC we have mulchfest Jan. 7 & 8th. You can click on this link to see which parks near you are accepting trees. We have a cart that we use to bring our tree, and we try and pick up as many other trees we find on our way.
Many areas come up with creative uses for old trees such as New Orleans using them to restore coastlines and The Pacific Northwest Christmas tree association using them in lakes for aquatic habitat projects. You can read a NY Times article on the subject here. Rose over at OnThePondFarm feeds hers to her goats.
We’re on the same wavelength today. Featured your blog right back!
http://onthepondfarm.blogspot.com/2012/01/bring-me-your-poor-tired-trees.html
Froze my toes getting photos for my “tree” blog. Snowing and nasty since I came in to post. Brr!
Rose
PS: Delete this comment that I somehow slipped to the previous post. Cold fingers and brain too!