I planted a forest two years ago
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FOREST 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. - 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. - For more Beauisms click here: https://linktr.ee/beauisms Watch the original planting: https://youtu.be/AbA-hoIuHM4?si=lXwMfl1tLx4Iv--_
  • Treevan 🇦🇺@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I am but one person with a full time job and a “charity” business I run on the side. We have about 4 months of wet weather to plant in on a good year.

    The planting has 3000 plants total, 95% grown by me in nursery. I’m not speedspading as I have to hoe out grass as I go (chemical free site) so I tend to plant approx 50-100 per afternoon I devote to it. 30-60 afternoons say. In one weekend, a flood ripped through and ripped out some oldish ones and a lot of young but I wasn’t finished the site so I just replaced and kept working.

    If I exclude that event, I can only visualise a few deaths across the entire planting. Failure to thrives aren’t included. That’s with zero watering but watering in at planting time.

    Here is a tree that is 12 months old but the earliest part of site is now 2 years old. The youngest is but a few weeks:

    At work we did a planting that had 2 deaths out of 2000; wet years it’s easy to keep the numbers high, you have to fuck it up to do otherwise.