When we bought this house Gustoff was about to hit and it took a lot of branches along with the power lines. As the road crews were coming through, cutting tree limbs and chipping them, they had to have other trucks run back and forth to dump sites. Hubby told the foreman they could just come and dump on our property, if he didn't dump any trash with it. He was happy to do so, saved him and his crew time and we got all the free mulch we could use. Cost the price of a set of blades for the riding lawn mower, but I finished chopping those pieces to smithereens, bought 2 loads of sand and picked up a few trailers of horse manure from a friends stable and in about 3 months, had a lot of compost to start a nice size garden. If you see a road crew trimming trees in your area, like they do a lot for power lines and such, let them dump it on your property. It makes fine mulch. You might contact the road department in your area, or whoever's jurisdiction, tree trimming falls under and ask them if they have anything planned in your neighborhood. We have a lot of half rotted firewood you could have from the last 2 warm winters, but it might attract termites? We have some tree limbs we haven't got around to burning and a chipper for branches up to 2 inches, if you want to make your own! What kind of mulch are you looking for? Pine? Baggas from sugar cane is good too, depending on what you are mulching. We have about 3/4 acres uncleared with some small pines and several chain saws, as long as you don't bring matches, we already have one old crazy pyro on the street and one a few blocks away, already!
