Less Raking, More Biodiversity: Hear how strategically leaving some or all of your autumn leaves this fall can greatly help songbirds, fireflies, turtles, butterflies and salamanders and improve the health of your soil. You’ll get insight into the lives of some favored and charming garden visitors and learn how these vulnerable creatures depend upon leaf “litter” for survival, while gaining insight into specific techniques that yield a beautiful, healthy yard.
Bio: Lisey Good founded Wild Cohasset in 2015 . A former member of Cohasset’s Open Space Committee and current member of the Cohasset Garden Club, her interest in conservation stems largely from her lifelong interest in wildlife.
Now a fundraising consultant for non-profits, she was formerly an interior designer seen on the Emmy-award winning television program This Old House, with a background that includes extensive work in PR, journalism and international marketing. She serves on the board of international animal charity The Harmony Fund & was formerly on the Horticulture Committee of the Garden Club of America. She’s the past editor of the GCA publication, The Real Dirt. Lisey lives in Marshfield with her husband and two rescue dogs.