Instead of bagging fallen leaves, consider letting them stay or raking them into garden beds to shelter wildlife and feed the soil.
Leaves provide essential wildlife habitat for many animals, including songbirds, butterflies, lizards, turtles, and frogs.
Shallow leaf piles also create mulch where leaves break down naturally, adding organic matter to the soil and improving soil quality by suppressing weeds, increasing water retention, and improving soil nutrition and aeration.
Keeping fallen leaves is kinder to your yard’s ecosystem and helps the planet by not sending leaves to the landfill which will contribute to greenhouse gases.
Here’s a good article to read about the #leavetheleaves movement.
