[Fuusmchat] Leaving the leaves?

[Annie Warmke]

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

On 10/16/2023 10:56 AM, Nancy Luthy via fuusmchat wrote:
> I say pile them up against the wall and near the bike rack.  There may 
> be quite a pile.
> Nancy
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> On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 10:53 AM Fuusm Office Assistant via fuusmchat 
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>     Dear FUUSM family,
>
>     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.
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>     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.
>
>     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?
>
>     What is the ecologically right thing to do with fallen leaves in
>     an urban area with no suitable “brushpile” site?
>
>     Surely we UUs want to do the ecologically right thing, and hauling
>     off leaves is NOT it. But what do we do with them?
>
>     Thanks.
>
>     Dawn Hewitt
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>     Office assistant
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>     First Unitarian Universalist Society of Marietta
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