I absolutely LOVE this article... agreed and have been saying it to those around me . I sadly live in a place where people are soooo ignorant of these information/facts... and they pathologically "clean" the gardens and lands from leaves .
Of course I am sharing this article. Thank you for it 🙏🙏🙏💚💚💚🌱🌱🍁🍂🍃🍁🍂🍃🍁🍁🍃🍀☘️🍂🍃🍂
I’m so glad you found this article! Thank you for sharing it on behalf of all of our wild relatives and neighbors! That must be so painful and frustrating to witness. We humans need so much more ecological education and literacy.
I like to stack functions while also learning from nature's inherent balance, genius and symbiotic interconnectness so I like to offer to rake the leaves for my neighbors (which without my offer would put them in bags to be sent to municipal waste facilities) and then I do as you suggest (add them to garden beds to enrich biodiversity, overwintering habitat potential and soil protecting/enriching). This year I was blessed to have a bumblebee queen decide that our yard was worth building her nest in. I was working in our herb patch harvesting mint and tulsi and I heard the deep buzzing sound of the nest defenders arising to let me know I was near their home. One of them confidently tackled and bounced off my forehead a few times just to let me know he meant business and so I backed off and left that corner of the yard for them.
What a blessing they were for my goji berry vines, tomato, peppers, blueberries and apple trees, I got amazing pollination rates. I also placed some potted specimens of plants I noticed them favoring near the nest for easy nectar access (like anise hyssop, tulsi, echinacea, and lupins).
Thank you for speaking for our winged and rooted kin, I appreciate your efforts to inform humans about these often overlooked aspects of our shared existence.
I absolutely LOVE this article... agreed and have been saying it to those around me . I sadly live in a place where people are soooo ignorant of these information/facts... and they pathologically "clean" the gardens and lands from leaves .
Of course I am sharing this article. Thank you for it 🙏🙏🙏💚💚💚🌱🌱🍁🍂🍃🍁🍂🍃🍁🍁🍃🍀☘️🍂🍃🍂
I’m so glad you found this article! Thank you for sharing it on behalf of all of our wild relatives and neighbors! That must be so painful and frustrating to witness. We humans need so much more ecological education and literacy.
Excellent post sister!
I like to stack functions while also learning from nature's inherent balance, genius and symbiotic interconnectness so I like to offer to rake the leaves for my neighbors (which without my offer would put them in bags to be sent to municipal waste facilities) and then I do as you suggest (add them to garden beds to enrich biodiversity, overwintering habitat potential and soil protecting/enriching). This year I was blessed to have a bumblebee queen decide that our yard was worth building her nest in. I was working in our herb patch harvesting mint and tulsi and I heard the deep buzzing sound of the nest defenders arising to let me know I was near their home. One of them confidently tackled and bounced off my forehead a few times just to let me know he meant business and so I backed off and left that corner of the yard for them.
What a blessing they were for my goji berry vines, tomato, peppers, blueberries and apple trees, I got amazing pollination rates. I also placed some potted specimens of plants I noticed them favoring near the nest for easy nectar access (like anise hyssop, tulsi, echinacea, and lupins).
Thank you for speaking for our winged and rooted kin, I appreciate your efforts to inform humans about these often overlooked aspects of our shared existence.