…in the garden, that is.
A nature ecosystem needs to include opportunities for organic matter to break down, and to encourage and support the organisms which do that.
My approach here is to have a log pile, and behind that, an area to collect bits and pieces of plants that have been chopped up — things that are too hard to be made into compost (which is happening elsewhere, in a tumbler).
The front side of the pile is made up of logs that were salvaged when a dead tree was cut down in a friend’s yard. They sit on an area that was cleared of weeds, and then covered with cardboard and store-bought mulch. And just for grins, I planted Frogfruit in one of the pockets in the pile. By the way, we last had rain here about a month ago, and this resilient plant has not been watered since then.
The area behind the log pile has also been covered with cardboard, and this is where I am collecting chopped up pieces of plants that are no longer in the ground. I don’t keep parts of plants that I don’t want to encourage, but these are sunflowers and if I happen to end up next year with a rogue patch of sunflowers behind the log pile, that would not be the end of the world.
So this is one of the places in the garden where I’ll just let nature do its thing. Certainly, ants took residence in the log pile immediately, and I’ll be interested to see what else happens there as time goes on.
Rewilding My Lot 
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