MulchFest is an annual event held by the Department of Parks & Recreation that provides New Yorkers with the opportunity to bring their holiday trees to be recycled at designated sites across the five boroughs.
For more information, visit the Parks Department’s Mulchfest page.
It turns out that you can actually eat parts of your Christmas tree.
The needles from your tree are a great source of Vitamin C. If you want to tuck into your tree after Christmas then dry out the needles before grinding. You can then use the dried needles as a garnish on soups. But please make sure you remove all the ornaments and are not trying to consume your artificial tree, (we’ve already discussed where those branches originally came from.)
Strangely, today is National Candy Cane Day, (you would have tought it happened earlier in December.) The National Confectioners Association says a choirmaster in Cologne, Germany back in 1670 originally gave the candies to young children to keep them quiet during long church services. Grandmas who still dole out sweets during droning sermons, you’ve got history on your side. An alternative theory suggests the hook was invented simply to make the candy sticks easier to hang on Christmas trees.
These, however, are folktales with little evidence to back them up. Their earliest verified association with Christmas is 1874, and candy canes have been hung on trees since at least 1882. Candy canes with red stripes first came about in the early 1900s, and postcards before that time show only white colored candy canes.
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