Planting a small forest in 24 hours (1440 trees)
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A Tree a Minute: As there are 1440 minutes in a day, and I love planting trees, I decided to plant a tree a minute for 24 hours. It was (swear meaningfully) hard. For my 40th birthday, my best mates gave me a self-flown joy flight in a light plane. When given the controls I headed for home. What was at first a wonderful sense of flying became a bizarre reality check, seeing so much green turning to brown in the summer heat. Most creek lines were bare, and the general lack of bushland within the giant quilt of farmland was shocking. You don’t see this contrast from the ground, always seeing a tree in the foreground, or a hedgerow in the middle distance. A single big gumtree can give the impression of health, yet the area I live in is a mostly deforested farmed zone exploited for its impressive topsoil. Having tapped into the potential of a 24 hour period of life, and since I love planting trees, I decided to plant a tree a minute on a friend's dairy farm by reforesting a creekline. Low and behold, planting that many mixed trees on muddy terrain, slipping on my arse every other minute, is one of the hardest, most rewarding single days of my life. For all the latest on tours, Patreon, books and other Beauisms - https://linktr.ee/beauisms A TREE A MINUTE Planted and Directed by BEAU MILES Produced and Edited by MITCH DRUMMOND Footage by Mitch Drummond, Chris Ord, Beau Miles Final Sound Mix JAMES DOBSON Produced by JODI EVANS
  • schmorp@slrpnk.netEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    That is most beautiful and recommended. In most areas however, newly planted trees need care in the first years. A lot of the new trees planted after the forest fires here in Southern Europe have died, because all the money and work power was there for the very visible replanting, but nobody ever really thought about the less visible ongoing care of the small trees.

    A few years ago I looked into water harvesting with slow release to maybe improve the survival rate of plant-and-forget, but it is not easy in places where you have not lots of rainfall.

    I guess the problem didn’t exist in the above-mentioned case because he planted along a waterline. I imagine plant-and-abandon can be done like this, and then the planted areas could be extended gradually further away from the water line, to plant more trees in the shade and protection of the initial plantation once these start to thrive.

    • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I guess the problem didn’t exist in the above-mentioned case because he planted along a waterline.

      I think so, as he recently did a video where he goes back and visits the area 2 years later (plan to post that tomorrow), and he estimated that about 70% survived.

      • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.netM
        3·
        1 year ago

        Based on the species, I’m assuming this is coastal Southern Australia. That is a pretty mild and excellent climate for trees, so that might have been a factor. In my area (California) you will have much higher mortality if there is no care after planting.

        Sounds like he was thoughtful about the specifies and site selection. If you are careful about those things, the trees can get by with less care. The worst projects that see total failure are poor species planted poorly at poor sites with poor care.