Durham Grown: The Durham County Library Garden Club

Leave Your Leaves!

Learn how leaving your leaves in the fall to naturally decompose back into your garden benefits the birds and insects, helps with climate change and flooding as well as saving time and money! Fall leaves are a great natural fertilizer and helps with carbon sequestration too!

Join Barbara Driscoll, of the New Hope Bird Alliance, to learn why you should leave the leaves this fall!

Barbara Driscoll is past President of the New Hope Bird Alliance and Eno River Association. She helped create and is the Co-Chair for New Hope Audubon’s Bird-Friendly Habitat Committee which promotes creating bird-friendly habitats. She retired in 2013 after being a Physical Scientist for 27 years with the Environmental Protection Agency. Barbara is an avid outdoor enthusiast who enjoys watching birds, butterflies, plants and animals around the world. Her hobbies include photography, walking her three hounds and removing invasive plants.

The New Hope Bird Alliance is the local Audubon Chapter for Durham, Orange and Chatham Counties. New Hope Bird Alliance hosts twice a week bird walks and promotes bird friendly habitat and conservation.

At Keep Durham Beautiful, our vision is that everyone in Durham has access to clean, green and beautiful outdoor spaces. We build environmentally just, resilient, and beautiful outdoor spaces in cooperation with Durham communities. An affiliate of Keep America Beautiful, Keep Durham Beautiful is a 501c3 nonprofit. We work in partnership with the City of Durham and Durham County to help residents take action through volunteer opportunities, tool lending, educational programs, and resource coordination.

Parking is available in the library parking lot or at the North Queen Street Garage located at 115 North Queen Street which is directly across the street from the library behind the apartments under construction.