Give me your Christmas tree

 

On Boxing Day we put out an appeal for people to give us their Christmas tree rather than throwing it out. We have done this for a number of years. The trees are fed to the goats. They eat the bark and the twigs. When they have finished with them, the branches are stripped off and shredded to make a mulch which we use in the chicken runs or donate to the Whinnies Community Garden. The trunks are chopped up and dried for firewood.

The first trees (see above) this year arrived on 27th December. The peak will be the next 2 weeks.