Reminders: MulchFest is this weekend!

[Photo Wednesday by Bobby Williams]

Exciting times this weekend — it's the annual MulchFest tomorrow and Sunday ... our eighth or ninth favorite days of the year in Tompkins Square Park!

As a special treat this year, chef Wylie Dufresne will be on-hand to show you how to make instant pea parmesan noodles in saffron consomme with morel dust entirely from mulch.

Treecycle hours are from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. both days. So, as the parks website says, bring your holiday tree "to be recycled into mulch that will nourish plantings across the city." If not you, then maybe give your neighbor's annoying teen a few bucks to drag it there for you.