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<p>Putting them where we don't have grass will be so helpful to the
life in the leaves, and the plantless areas. It seems like a good
idea to keep them where they were created. Annie<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/16/2023 10:56 AM, Nancy Luthy via
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<div dir="ltr">I say pile them up against the wall and near the
bike rack. There may be quite a pile.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear FUUSM family,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As I am writing to you, our
hard-working, conscientious, and very sweet building
steward, Wendy, is sucking all the leaves in the FUUSM
courtyard into a bag for disposal elsewhere. Soon, she
will blow all the leaves under the trees into a pile
and haul them off, too. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Recognizing that leaves hold eggs
of beneficial insects, and that leaves decompose to
build hummus, and eventually, the soil, “Leave the
leaves!” is the new mantra of ecologists. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I can’t in good conscience let the
leaves that have fallen on FUUSM property be carried
off with out objection. But neither can we leave the
leaves on the city sidewalk, or on our steps or
walkway or courtyard, where it would kill the grass.
Would it be best to move those leaves onto the
vegetation of the walled areas beside the courtyard?
Or maybe under the tall conifers, to the right of the
bike rack?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What is the ecologically right
thing to do with fallen leaves in an urban area with
no suitable “brushpile” site? </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Surely we UUs want to do the
ecologically right thing, and hauling off leaves is
NOT it. But what do we do with them?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dawn Hewitt</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">First Unitarian Universalist
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