Summary: <p><a href="https://awaytogarden.com/saner-approach-fall-cleanup-habitat-networks-rhiannon-crain/">A Way To Garden With Margaret Roach-A Saner Approach to Fall Cleanup, with The Habitat Network’s Rhiannon Crain</a></p> <div>When we say, “fall garden clean-up,” just how clean do we mean? A slightly tongue-in-cheek campaign called <a href="http://content.yardmap.org/special-pages/pledge-to-be-a-lazy-gardener/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Pledge to Be a Lazy Gardener,”</a> from the Habitat Network, asks us to think about that in a whole different way than what you might find in the how-to section of ornamental-horticulture books.</div> <div> <p>Backstory: The Habitat Network collaboration between Cornell Lab of Ornithology and The Nature Conservancy, empowered by a mapping program called YardMap, provides a suite of tools that helps you map, and then manage, your own home landscape ecologically, to be a better habitat style gardener. The information in the maps you create in this citizen-science project helps researchers learn about wildlife interactions in residential landscapes, and more.</p> <p>We asked Dr. Rhiannon Crain, The Habitat Network project manager, to talk about rethinking fall clean-up from an ecological point of view.<img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1519" src="https://i2.wp.com/robinhoodradioondemand.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/lazy-gardeners-pledge-logo-habitat-network.jpg?resize=300%2C300&ssl=1" alt="" width="300" height="300"></p> </div>
