[This post is two things: a report on Nashville’s first “Leave the Leaves Day,” and a list of suggestions for anyone to make their own local Leave the Leaves event. ]
Nashville’s first “Leave the Leaves Day” is in the bag, so to speak, where nearly 250 visitors at Warner Park Nature Center learned why leaves are best left out of the bag.
Simply put,
when we bag or mow leaves
we are bagging and mowing next year’s butterflies, fireflies, and bird food.
Here are some highlights from the past few Native Nature Shares. What is Native Nature Share? It’s a monthly get-together at Warner Park Nature Center: “an opportunity to learn from each other about our local habitats, and to build community in an informal, supportive gathering.”
Basically, It’s show ‘n’ tell for grownups. Everyone is welcome. All you have to do is bring one seasonal, right-now wonder that you think is urgently interesting and probably native: a plant, leaf, fossil, rock, stick, feather, fungus, bug, whatever.
You can ask the group to identify your treasure or you can tell us what it is, but either way, we’ll talk about it, and we’ll learn from each other.
The collective enthusiasm and experience and curiosity around that table is itself a wonder.
It’s like a Book Group, but without the guilt of not reading the book.
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