After the Christmas Season
Instead of putting your tree out by the curb for disposal at a landfill, try one of these ways to recycle your natural Christmas tree.
It's good for the environment... so, it's good for you too!
 - Use your tree as a backyard bird feeder... hang suet balls and popcorn/cranberry strands from the branches.
- Cut into small pieces and use for mulch around your shrubs.
- In Nova Scotia, trees are often used to protect sand dunes from erosion.
- Use THIS year's tree, cut into small chunks and pieces, to start next year's FIRST holiday fire.
- Leave your wreath up to turn a lovely shade of auburn and then...
- use the needles in a fragrant sachet.
- Cut up and put in your compost pile
- Use the tree as a bean (or pea) support pole. Sharpen the trunk and drive it into the ground - by summertime your tree will be covered with growing bean or pea vines and it will be "alive" again.
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