#mowing

-Native grasses if you still want a grass lawn, possibly with native wildflowers included if you want to help native pollinators and/or are letting it grow long. Native grasses have deeper roots, require less watering, and help prevent soil erosion.

-Native groundcover plants. A popular one here in my area is clover, which is great for bees, and it stays short, so no mowing!

-You can also consider keeping your normal lawn but leaving a small patch for pollinators by not moving that patch most of the year. Let things like clover and dandelion (or whatever is native near you) pop up there naturally, or scatter some native wildflower seeds in the area

Remote control slope mower

One of the more tedious minka tasks; slope mowing. We stopped today and chatted with the operator of a mower, likely more costly than our car.

1 hr (gas) lawn mower use = driving 300 miles from LA to Vegas

1 hr (gas) leaf blower use = driving 1100 miles from LA to Denver

This is because while gas efficiency has improved leaps and bounds for cars, the motors used in lawn mowers and leaf blowers have not changed much in the last 50 years. leaf blowers also blast other forms of particulate matter around, adding immensely to air pollution.

as long as they arent in the walkway, feel free to leave the leaves as they are free compost and protection for insects.