🌿 Stewardship Notes 🌿 At home stewardship can be as simple as doing nothing!

🍂 Leave your leaves this fall to provide a natural fertilizer and provide shelter for insects and small animals during the winter months. 🍁🎃 Leaving your leaves is an easy way to be more environmentally friendly, as leaf litter provides winter habitats for butterflies, moths, bees, and insects, along with 94% of caterpillars. Save time and money this fall by leaving your leaves! The best way to do this is to just leave your leaves where they fall, but in areas where that is not an option (such as grass you need to maintain), rake or blow leaves under trees, shrubs, or in garden bends to use as mulch! If necessary, you can also mulch leaves directly using a mulching lawnmower. Learn more about leaving your leaves at the link in our bio! 📸 Kathy Lee, Nick Ferguson, Nick Ferguson, Todd Nance [Image Descriptions: Eno River in the fall with orange and yellow-colored trees lining the river; fall trees in the Eno River Basin; The Eno River reflecting fall colored trees; Nancy Rhodes creek dam in the fall] #leaveyourleaves #enoriver #supportconservation #protectwhatmatters