- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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19 people are interested
MulchFest
ORGANIZATION: Riverside Park Conservancy
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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19 people are interested
Join the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, and the Riverside Park Conservancy staff to recycle Christmas trees into wood chips. These wood chips are used to nourish trees and plants on streets and gardens citywide. More than 28,000 trees were recycled last year city-wide. Help us top this number! Here’s how you can get involved:
Volunteer
Volunteers are needed to de-Christmas the trees left for recycling. We will be removing ornaments lights and getting the trees ready to chip. Bonus: volunteers can take home any found ornaments of your choice!
The MulchFest volunteer location at Riverside Park is right outside River Run Playground, just inside Riverside Park from the entrance on W 83rd Street and Riverside Drive. We'll be there with hot chocolate and hand warmers for all who chip in!
You can find us by plugging in these coordinates into Google Maps: 40.787424, -73.982333
Treecycle
Bring your holiday tree to Riverside Park to be recycled into mulch that will nourish plantings in the Park all year long! Drop your tree at any park entrance and we will bring it to our chipping site to be Treecycled. The chips from your tree will be used as mulch throughout the park. You can even take home a bag of mulch to provide warm winter protection for the street tree in front of your apartment.
**Note: Please remember to remove all lights and ornaments before bringing the tree to a MulchFest site.
For more information, visit https://www.nycgovparks.org/highlights/festivals/mulchfest.
More opportunities with Riverside Park Conservancy
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About Riverside Park Conservancy
Location:
475 RIVERSIDE DR STE 455, NEW YORK, NY 10115, US
Mission Statement
The mission of the Riverside Park Conservancy is to restore, maintain, and improve Riverside Park in partnership with the City of New York for the enjoyment and benefit of all New Yorkers. We support the preservation of the park’s historic landscape, structures, and monuments, engage the community in active stewardship of the park, and provide a wide range of public programs.
Description
In the 1870s Frederick Law Olmsted was in the midst of designing a lovely green space above the Hudson River on the Upper West Side of Manhattan -- Riverside Park. Over 60 years later, Robert Moses covered the railroad tracks, built the Rotunda, extended the park to the waterfront, and developed its recreation areas. Expansion south of 72nd Street began in the 1990s. Today, the Riverside Park we enjoy is more than 330 acres of beautiful parkland from 59th to 155th Street.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
Meet at River Run Playground83rd Street entrance from Riverside DriveCoordinates: 40.787424, -73.982333New York, NY 10024
DATE POSTED
December 16, 2019
SKILLS
GOOD FOR
- Kids
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
N/A