Comment on I'm not okay.

• pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  leave them leaves unraked

  source

  • odelik@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Or create leaf mold (a pile of sticks and leaves) in targeted areas of your yard/property that are ideal for breeding fireflies and other desired native insects/spiders. Especially if you live in an HOA community that requires reqular raking and can hide the leaves under bushes/shrubs/trees/garden beds as mulch.

    Raking of leaves isn’t really the problem so much as is the complete removal of leaves from the property & neighborhood (which also removes the nutrients from the local top soil).

    source

    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      complete removal of leaves from the property & neighborhood (which also removes the nutrients from the local top soil).

      See also: folks who insist on collecting all grass clipping when they mow. It’s free fertilizer that helps save some water. Some folks care too much about a golf course lawn that they fail to realize the obvious benefits to slight adjustments to their practices

      source
• entwine413@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Same here, but if I drive a few miles out of the city, they’re out and about.

  source
• TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just to be sure, have you lived at the same address for all these years? I haven’t, so it’s hard to compare then & now for me.

  source

  • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I haven’t lived at the same address but I now live in a small enough town I’ve seen deer, turkeys and bald eagles from my yard, but I grew up in the suburbs where a raccoon was the wildest thing I ever saw

    source

    • TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think they’re more common in the suburbs

      source