Our monthly community meetings exist for you to learn about what is happening in Astoria Park and to make your voice heard! We cover planned agenda items, updates, and leave time for open discussion about other topics.
Please remember to remove all lights, ornaments, and netting before bringing the tree to a MulchFest site. Bags will be provided if you wish to take some free mulch home. Mulch is available at the sites marked.
Join the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, the New York City Department of Sanitation, and GreeNYC to recycle your Christmas trees into wood chips. These wood chips are used to nourish trees and plants on streets and gardens citywide. Or, take home your very own bag of mulch to use in your backyard or to make a winter bed for a street tree. More than 30,000 trees were recycled last year. Help us top this number!
This weekend, January 10 & 11 from 10am to 2pm, drop off your holiday tree in the Astoria Park parking lot. All trees will be chipped into mulch, which will be used in NYC's parks. Community members are also welcome to stop by and take home mulch for your own use.
A gracious thank you to Bohemian Beer Garden for donating hot chocolate to be served from approximately 12:30-2pm on both MulchFest days.
Stay tuned to our Facebook page for the latest information and weather updates regarding MulchFest as well as other opportunities in Astoria Park.
It was a very successful year for MulchFest at Astoria Park - a total of 480 trees were collected! Thank you to our friends in Astoria, Woodside, Sunnyside, and beyond who treecyled and visited us in Astoria Park this year!
NYC Parks Celebrates Another Year Of Recycling Christmas Trees At Mulchfest 2015
Photo by Daniel Avila
Trees collected at MulchFest will nourish parks and gardens across the city.
New Yorkers recently celebrated the 19th annual MulchFest by recycling their Christmas trees at over 80 locations across the city. NYC Parks, partnering with the Department of Sanitation, GreeNYC, and numerous community organizations, provides New Yorkers with the opportunity to sustainably recycle their trees. Participants were also invited to take a free bag of mulch home.
Rather than turning Christmas trees into trash, New Yorkers were provided the opportunity to act sustainably and mulch their trees into wood chips. This year's MulchFest recycled nearly 30,000 trees.
Not only will NYC Parks be counting recycled trees, this year we'll also be launching our Trees Count! 2015 tree census to count every street tree on every city block. For more information on how you can volunteer, visit www.nyc.gov/parks/treescount or call 311
