Santa Monica real estate is typically pretty slow around the holidays, so I went away on vacation with the family and grew a beard in the process (more on that later). I really wanted to rent a living tree and got out-voted this year, so we went for the small version to keep the kids happy. It’s a fairly sustainable practice of killing a tree and then chopping it up for compost, so the tree hugger in me can’t complain too much.
The City of Santa Monica has several spots to recycle your tree for free all through January and I took my daughter to one of them (in the rain no less).
Here’s the goods:
Following are the addresses of the parks where trees can be dropped off:
Clover Park
25th & Ocean Park Blvd.
Christine Emerson Reed Park
Lincoln & California
Douglas Park
Chelsea & Wilshire
Los Amigos Park
5th & Hollister