Autumn is here, and vibrant leaves will inevitably blanket your yard. It's a beautiful sight, but it's also the time when those who want a tidier lawn reach for their rakes and get to work.

Leaf blowers are falling out of favor because they're loud, polluting, and expensive. Rakes are a traditional solution, but it can be heavy manual labor to rake a whole lawn.

If you do choose to leave your leaves in your yard, they won't end up in a landfill. Although some municipalities vacuum leaves and compost them, the majority don't, according to Meyer.

Sandy Dyer rakes leaves Thursday morning onto her garden at her home in New Gloucester. Dyer says she concentrates her raking on areas where leaves could blow into her closest neighbor’s yard.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said leaves and other yard debris make up more than 13% of the nation’s solid waste, which comes out to 33 million tons a year.

Decomposing leaves can help trees and yard plants, as well as the animals and insects living in your yard. At the end of the day, homeowners have to choose whether to rake or not to rake.

A National Wildlife Federation survey of 1,500 people across the U.S. found that 90% percent of all respondents are willing to leave or repurpose the leaves in their yard to help the environment. If ...

The “leave your leaves” movement is all about putting those rakes and blowers away and letting nature do what nature does. Leaves are rich in nutrients like potassium, nitrogen and phosphorus ...