MulchFest 2008 Video! Only 3 Minutes.

A special 3 minute video about our Mulchfest 2008, saving discraded x-mas and solstice trees from an ignoble demise.
Chip in! Mulch your tree! Help NYC grow. With interviews, rare never before seen footage of trees being chipped, the neighbors who brought their trees for a proper transformation, and freestyling to "Slick Rick" by 98.7 KISS DJ squad.

MulchFest 2008! and Volunteer Days

Saturday and Sunday

January 5th and 6th
10am to 2PM

Volunteer Days

Recover olde x-mas/solstice trees, celebrate winter!
MulchFest 2008: Chip In! Mulch Your Tree! Help NYC Grow.

Saturday, Jan 05, 2008
10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Citywide

MulchFest provides New Yorkers an opportunity to bring their Christmas trees to designated sites where they are ground into wood chips. The chips can then be placed in tree pits and gardens.

Parks & Recreation encourages New Yorkers to help the environment and their community by participating in this event. MulchFest takes place on January 5 & 6, 2008 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Participants are encouraged to bring bags to take advantage of the free mulch provided.

Please note:
* All lights, ornaments, and decorations must be removed from the trees prior to drop-off.
* Participants will be able to take wood chips and/or mulch home from designated chipping sites. Mulch will not be available at sites marked as "Drop-off Only."
See here for other sites: http://nycgovparks.org/services/mulchfest/mulchfest.html

Once again we host the city-wide MulchFest with the NYC Department of Parks
and Recreation. Bring your tree, or help us get some. Bring a bag to take
home woodchip mulch for your garden or fire-escape.

We invite you to join us in giving active and loving care to our Brook
Park. We welcome both skilled and unskilled alike to join our team in
making improvements to our physical environment. Depending on needs at the
time and the uniqueness of the group, we will tackle a variety of tasks
and/or a joint project. Please join us for a fun period of service through
focused and joyful work.


Please let us know if you are intending to participate and
sign
up through our website via the Volunteer section

http://www.friendsofbrookpark.org/volunteer

if you haven't done so already in the past.
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On the 6th, which is three kings day, some of us may go to an
anti-gentrification march in el barrio...so bring your bike!
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Great Youtube video with Friends of Brook Park!
Leave a comment there!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qPQIWnNqew&eurl
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Jan 12th Water Conference at American Museum of Natural History, table with
us for an hour or two!

Mulch Fest 2007

We rang in the new roman year with Mulch Fest 2007 an annual collaboration with the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation, who provided the hot chocolate, and the tree mulcher. Some people brought their Christmas trees (or "Solstice Trees", in some cases) to where it came from, the Earth. Others we hunted and gathered from our surrounding neighborhood. Thanks especially to our Head Gardener Danny Chervoni for his dedicated efforts. Once again we scored over 100 trees. Some mulch was taken home by gardeners, one man came from Yankee Stadium area with a handcart! The rest we have the to landscape Brook Park with. We were joined by an excellent crew from Mot Haven Prep who put in a full day on the garden, shoveling and raking and working with the Earth.