On a patch of paddock in West Gippsland stands a small forest, which wasn’t there before.
Flowering gums and she-oaks reach up nine metres tall, birds nest in their branches, while a giant tiger snake slides through the grass below.
All it took was one day of “bloody hard” work.
About four years ago the Australian film-maker and outdoorsman Beau Miles set out to plant 1,440 trees and shrubs in 24 hours – enough to turn a blanket of rolling Victorian hills back into bush.
Miles decided he was done with the kind of modern-day adventures that burned through money and carbon, delivering little in the way of tangible outcomes except for photos and a great story. Instead, he says, he began looking for physical challenges that offer more “bang-for-buck”.
Story includes a YouTube video.
If this is what gets someone into planting trees, I’m all for it. Native trees and shrubs, please!
That’s exactly what he did. New plantings planned soon.
The video has more details.
24 types of trees, bushes, shrubs
Nice. He did his homework and made sure to not plant a monoculture.
