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Planting a small forest in 24 hours (1440 trees)
vid.puffyan.usA 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.
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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
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.