Chipping Day
Community Chipping Day
If you would like to participate in a FREE Community Chipping Day here in Mineral, please download a Do It Yourself Guide here and complete a short application here. Brin Greer of Tehama Conservation Fund (TCF) is the Outreach Coordinator on this and will contact applicants to coordinate an educational orientation via Zoom prior to the work, as well as schedule the date for Chipping Day here. Contact her at 530-727-1295 or Brin@tehamacountyrcd.org.
Participants are not required to be at their properties for the chipping, and chips need not be broadcast back onto one's property. TCF technicians bring a 6" chipper and trailer to town, demolish the chipping piles that participating homeowners have set out on the street in front of their properties, and either broadcast the chips back onto the property or haul them to the property of a resident who has requested unwanted mulch for landscaping purposes.
The dates will be scheduled after several applications are received. The program's goal is to educate and assist as many individual homeowners as possible. A certain number of applicants are required before TCF will schedule a date, so please apply to participate now!
65+? Get FREE Help Clearing 100’ of Defensible Space
Creating defensible space can be too much of a burden if you are elderly or unable to perform yard work. Fortunately, the Tehama Conservation Fund (TCF) provides free assistance to those who are 65 and over or physically limited. TCF will send trained forestry technicians to prune branches, shrubs, and trees; safely remove dead branches; mow seasonal grasses; and chip the material. This program does not include felling of large trees. Pine needles, pine cones, grasses, root balls, vines, and stumps will not be chipped. Apply for assistance online or call Brin Greer, Outreach Coordinator, at (530) 727-1295 or Brin@tehamacountyrcd.org.
