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I planted a forest two years ago
vid.puffyan.usFOREST UPDATE 2023: In August of 2021 I loaded up my old ute and old trailer with 1440 trees, bundles of long sticks, a hand of bananas, pogo-stick-planter, dirty swag, slippery tin of sunscreen and a pair of bespoke gumboots lined with running innersoles. My aim was to plant a tree a minute for 24 hours. I did it, just, plodding away with the final trays of trees as if I was wounded. In the film ‘A tree a minute’ my final text said ‘I’ll make a follow up film in two years’. So here I am, as promised, revisiting the small 2.5 acre plot on my good friends block to see how this old creek, once cleared, is getting on as a newly fledged patch of forest.
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Produced and Directed by
BEAU MILES
Produced and Edited by
MITCH DRUMMOND
Final Sound Mix
JAMES DOBSON
Goodonya
HEATH STRATING for keeping the cows out and local critters for not being too brutal with your animal instincts.
PATRICK QUAY for photos.
CHRIS ORD for original footage.
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For more Beauisms click here: https://linktr.ee/beauisms
Watch the original planting: https://youtu.be/AbA-hoIuHM4?si=lXwMfl1tLx4Iv--_
Excellent. Thank you.
Interestingly, my large planting I did myself just hit 2 years old as well. It didn’t occur to me at the time when first watching but we planted at similar times, me being in November (early humid Summer due to La Nina).
Will be interesting to compare in that regard. We are getting record low rainfall here immediately after record high so my planting is acting a little strange. Hopefully Beau’s doesn’t get burnt with all that long grass and that climate.