Leave the Leaves

It’s November and the leaves are falling! Aren’t natures changing colors beautiful?

Underneath those leaves live important friends, such as butterflies, beetles, moths and more. These little critters are sheltering from the wild wet winter and need your help for protection.

There’s a movement afoot across America that is asking us all to ‘Leave the Leaves’.

One such society leading the way is The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation who is an international nonprofit organization that protects the natural world through the conservation of invertebrates and their habitats.

The Xerces Society says;

“Leave the leaves does not mean ignoring them and leaving them where they fell. You can move them to places in your yard where they are out of the way, will not kill your turf, and will still help wildlife.”

“When the leaves fall we rake them but do not discard them. Instead, we pile them on our garden beds or in the corners of our yard where they might be used by the animals that need this shelter. In the spring, we either dig them into the garden beds or put them in the compost.”

Want to learn more on this topic, here’s their full article or you can visit xerces.org