Planting a Forest in a Day

Today we'll be spending a day planting a forest of 300 native trees to bring back some of the wild food sources that would have once grown on this land before it was turned into a grassland. Hopefully overtime as this forest grows, it will support some of the native wildlife that once thrived in this area before it was turned into farmland.
I'll be taking you through the whole process of planting this forest, talking about the trees that I'll be growing, and covering things like succession of forests and how I plan to eventually get rid of the grass underneath and turn it into a more diverse forest overtime.

Hi, I'm Kalem, and this channel features all sorts of unusual and exotic fruiting plants with tips of how to successfully grow them. I'm interested in all things gardening and love growing my own food and all types of edible plants.
I live on a 2 acre piece of land in New Zealand where we are turning a grass paddock into and abundant, edible paradise and food forest! So come along on this journey with me as I experiment with growing, and try to push the limits of what I can grow. I'll share with you my successes and failures so hopefully you'll learn from them and have a go yourself! Come learn with me and Subscribe to join this awesome community :)

0:00 My Story
0:39 Imagining how the land once was
1:17 What's the plan
1:43 Let's go get the trees
2:50 The planting area
3:25 Planting Day
5:20 Manuka / Tea tree
6:04 Will the land be less productive?
7:01 The future plan
8:00 Trying to beat the rain
8:27 Species of trees
11:30 Encouragement to learn
11:54 The final trees going in
12:48 Setting the trees up for the drought
14:24 Developing a forest floor
14:54 Thank you so much :)
15:18 Nature is beautiful
#plant # forest