[Fuusmchat] [possibly spam] Re: Leaving the leaves?

[George Banziger]

Dawn,

     Great idea about the leaves.

     Many thanks to Tom C...


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On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 4:40 PM Dawn Hewitt via fuusmchat <
fuusmchat at fuusm.org> wrote:

> What timing! This was in the Washington Post today:
> https://wapo.st/3ZWgbSw
>
> Tom, if you are willing to donate one (or more!!) composting structures to
> FUUSM, I think we’d be crazy not to take them!  If you can put them behind
> the RE building to the right of the bike rack, that would be great. From
> the Huntington Bank parking lot, it would be easy to move them down the
> hill to the spot where they’d be most useful. THANK YOU!!
>
> I think the right thing to do is to put as many leaves as will fit into
> these cylinders, but also, there are plenty of areas of bare soil beneath
> the tall spruces (or firs, or whatever those conifers are). It would be
> good to spread leaves out in this area to benefit the soil.
>
> I will gladly ask Wendy to do this when I see her on Thursday—unless
> someone objects.
>
> Thanks!
>
> —dawn
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Oct 16, 2023, at 12:15 PM, Tom Cunningham via fuusmchat <
> fuusmchat at fuusm.org> wrote:
>
> 
> Hi all,
>
> I've always built my compost pile using cyndrical "structures" made from
> old chain link fencing (see photo of my current pile).  The material
> composts better as this allows air circulation.  Since moving to Vienna, I
> have a great source of maple leaves (my neighbor), which allows me to store
> a good bit of the leaves for next year's compost, using a couple more of
> these chainlink circles.
>
> I have 3 extra chainlink cylinders that I can contribute if they would
> work to store our FUUSM leaves, promoting some composting.  When filled
> with leaves, they are 3 feet in diameter and 4 feet high.   If we want
> this, let me know, and someone tell me where to put them on our church
> property.
>
> As a footnote, the best compost comes from not 100% leaves, but a mix of
> brown and green, plus water, air, and optimally. occasional turning.  But
> I've found that one of these circles filled with leaves still seems to
> break down fairly well, maybe with the occasional stir, and makes a decent
> mulch, if not actual compost.
>
> Tom
>
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 10:53 AM, Fuusm Office Assistant via fuusmchat <
> fuusmchat at fuusm.org
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> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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
>
> Office assistant
>
> First Unitarian Universalist Society of Marietta
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