{"id":38830,"date":"2018-10-07T11:50:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T16:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38830"},"modified":"2018-10-07T11:50:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-07T16:50:27","slug":"reduce-waste-how-to-make-the-most-of-your-autumn-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38830","title":{"rendered":"Reduce Waste: How To Make The Most Of Your Autumn Leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/resources\/reduce-waste-how-to-make-the-most-of-your-autumn-leaves_06102018\/\">Reduce Waste: How To Make The Most Of Your Autumn Leaves<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-47696 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Ready-Nutrition-Autumn-Leaves.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Ready-Nutrition-Autumn-Leaves.jpg 550w, http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Ready-Nutrition-Autumn-Leaves-300x203.jpg 300w\" alt=\"This is a great way to make use all of those gorgeous fall leaves laying around. Let's get sustainable!\" width=\"550\" height=\"373\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The end of the summer garden is always bittersweet for me.\u00a0 I miss my daily fresh cut lettuce but I also love the falling leaves and bright reds and oranges of autumn. Luckily, those fallen leaves are more than just pleasing to look at.\u00a0 In this helpful guide, we\u2019ll walk you through a few easy ways to use your fallen autumn leaves as zero waste and cheaper options around your\u00a0place.<\/p>\n<p>One of the best sustainable and organic ways to help prepare your garden is to add a mulch, and the beautiful fallen leaves of autumn are a great way to this.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/resources\/3-ways-to-utilize-fallen-leaves_06092010\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> According to <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/resources\/3-ways-to-utilize-fallen-leaves_06092010\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ready Nutrition<\/a>,<\/em> in the gardening community, leaves are\u00a0<em>huge<\/em>.\u00a0 When they are composted they become known as \u201cblack gold,\u201d\u00a0a nutrient-rich material that can be used in a multitude of ways in the garden.<\/p>\n<p>The life cycle of a leaf begins when a tree makes its leaves in the spring. The tree concentrates all of its energy and\u00a0nutrients into making the leaves because the\u00a0more <a href=\"http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/resources\/3-ways-to-utilize-fallen-leaves_06092010\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">leaves there are, the more photosynthesis can occur.<\/a>\u00a0 When the leaves drop in autumn, they create a ground cover for the trees to conserve moisture.\u00a0\u00a0As the leaves decompose, they provide the tree with nutrients and resupply the depleted soil with microbes.\u00a0\u00a0The roots of trees can then absorb the nutrients and minerals via the soil in order\u00a0to\u00a0create even more leaves the next spring.\u00a0 It\u2019s a unique life cycle that can be taken advantage of.<\/p>\n<p>To use your leaves as mulch, you\u2019ll want to start by shredding them.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t have a leaf shredder, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardeners.com\/how-to\/put-fall-leaves-to-work\/5402.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Gardeners<\/em> suggests running over them several times<\/a> with a lawn mower after a good layer has blanketed the ground.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reduce Waste: How To Make The Most Of Your Autumn Leaves The end of the summer garden is always bittersweet for me.\u00a0 I miss my daily fresh cut lettuce but I also love the falling leaves and bright reds and oranges of autumn. Luckily, those fallen leaves are more than just pleasing to look at.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[9357,346,22175,22174,6787,20441],"class_list":["post-38830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-compost","tag-gardening","tag-leaves","tag-mulch","tag-ready-nutrition","tag-sara-tipton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38831,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38830\/revisions\/38831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}