Fall Leaves

My husband drove around within a 10 block radius of our house and found this many bags of leaves.

He came back with truck full upon truck full. It may look insane to be gathering this many leaves as quickly as possible before trash day- but it is much more insane to be throwing away this much compostable stuff into the landfill.

I would say I am laissez faire about oh everything but I am about to make a bold statement here:
If you have lived in a home you have owned for more than a month- you must have a compost pile.

No exceptions. Esp. if you have a garden! There is no excuse for making time to have a garden and not having a compost pile.

Now I get those living in apartments without yards or renting with unforgiving landlords- you can only do what you can. But everyone else needs to get on the band wagon. It is great for your soil and your plants. Even if you never use it for improving your soil- at least it won't be going to the landfill releasing green house gasses. Get a fancy composter for Christmas or make the cheapest one possible out of other peoples trash bags filled with leaves! The options are endless. Just do it.

So what did we do with all these leaves? We dumped a ton of them into the chicken yard. The chickens LOVE digging through all the leaves, they turn the leaves under quickly, it improves the soil, more worms come to the improved soil, and the chickens get more worms to eat. Nature never ceases to amaze. We saved some of the leaves right in the garage bags for ease of dumping them into the chickens yard as the leaves in there decompose. It happens quickly!

We used some other leaves for mulch. As for the rest, we just put them into a pile and wait until they break down for great compost. We wait! Everyone can do that. It doesn't involve doing anything!

Let your New Years Resolution be to Make Less Trash.

Feel free to hit me with your reason for not composting. We can brainstorm ideas together.