It's the best weekend of the year - Mulchfest! Specifically, wood-chipping weekend.
This morning in Tompkins Square Park, a mountain of discarded Christmas trees awaited the arrival of the chipper.
As soon as the chipper arrived, workers began removing all metal, plastic, and forgotten ornaments from the trees.
They organized a pile to make things easier for tossing the trees into the machine.
As the chipper chewed up the evergreens and spat out the shreds into the back of a truck, the air filled with wonderfully aromatic fir dust. This what we wait all year to smell.
Meanwhile, over in Maria Hernandez Park in Brooklyn, the first round of chipping had ended but I got there in time to enjoy the holiday tree and decorations.
Several people were enjoying the free fresh mulch.
As usual, the Parks Department provided some cute canvas bags people could use to collect mulch to take home.
Here are some videos of the mulching in Tompkins Square:
If you missed the wood chipper today, it is scheduled to be out and about again tomorrow, Sunday, January 7. See the Parks Department website for chipping locations.
See my Mulchfest archive here.
I also have a dedicated Flickr photo collection here.
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