Practical guides.

We try not to write too many how-to pieces, because most how-to pieces in this domain are written by people selling something. We write them anyway, occasionally, when there's a question we keep getting asked or a thing we've stopped doing that other people might want to stop doing too.

These are the practical pieces. Each one is about a specific decision — what to leave alone, what to add, what to skip, what to put away. Each one tries to explain not just what to do, but why.

If you want a single place to start, the leaves piece is the one we'd hand to a friend. It costs nothing, takes no time, and quietly does more than almost anything else you could do in a yard.