Here is the raw material. They don’t accept electrical poles, treated wood or garbage, but some sneaks thru, I’m sure.

An operator works .all day long pulling material from people’s trucks and rearranging the raw pile

https://youtu.be/Z5sfdPAwkRY

Our turn to dump. I’m playing, trying to see if I could post a video.

End product, after being finely shredded with huge,expensive shredders.

Nice piles of mulch!

PK, I’ve long suspected you are a very nice woman, but when somebody has something nice to about mulch, you KNOW they’re super nice! Ha

Mountains of brown gold. Getting ready to order 10 yds of double ground hardwood from Bastrop Tree service. $15 per yd delivered.

Wow that’s a deal, we pay $22/yd when we buy AND we pick up.

Tip: If you live in an unincorporated area, your local utility will send out crews to trim the trees off the power lines. Pretty sure you've seen those kinds of crews before. They drive a covered truck with a huge wood chipper in tow. A call to them to request a free dump of the load might yield you more mulch than you can use. I used to do that with our local co-op and got enough left over to use as compost 6 months later. They have since outsourced that service so I have to buy that from that company.

We pay $32 for a pickup load of cedar mulch, I never have enough.

Thanks, BossyVossy, I do love organic matter.

Also Austin has free mulch if you load yourself: http://www.austintexas.gov/sites/default/files/files/Watershed/growgreen/freewoodmulchflyer2014.pdf

Your townships/cities may have the same deal.

Or you can hijack one of the trailers with chipped tree limbs driving through the neighborhood after being hired to trim trees. Here's my pile, Had to put up the sign because the pile ''mysteriously'' (yeah right) kept growing larger!

Roselee, hijacking the truck. Exactly what I do but we do buy a little cedar b/c we enjoy the scent along walkway. Cedar has fallen a bit out of favor in our area b/c it’s slow to decompose, but personally I don’t care about that as don’t see any ill effect on plants.

Big box stores have frequent sales in my area @ $2/bag and I get some b/c easier to handle bags when doing containers. With hurricane Harvey and so many downed trees, there s/b mulch in abundance next spring

In Comal County you can go to the recycling yard and they’ll give it to you for free and load it for you. Just have to have a tarp to cover it.