Going Natural: Kicking the mulch habit

"I didn’t spend spring vacation in Daytona Beach taking drunken selfies with my besties—I stopped buying mulch.
I had an epiphany. Hauling home heavy plastic bags of uniformly chopped and dyed commercial mulch from a garden center and dumping them around my garden is a kind of cultural sleepwalking. It’s a failure to engage with the reality of our natural world.
Think about it: Mother Nature gives us free mulch. It’s called fallen leaves."

More of a great perspective on our trained, knee-jerk attitude toward mulch at http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Magazine/July-August-2014/Going-Natural/