Using YouTube to plant a forest

Using YouTube to plant a forest

Flowers and plants
Flowers and plants
2 Video Views·Jul 30, 2026

THE YOUTUBE FOREST: I’ve planted plenty of trees before, but always a known quantity, in a known allotment of time. So I had an idea. Hand the project over to YouTube to see how much money a video can make, and turn that money into trees. I’d then have to figure out where to plant them, how I’d get them in the ground before summer, who’d help, and how I’d get a hold of that many trees in such a short space of time. I had one month to earn the money and 6 weeks to get them in the ground. The beauty it all this was the unknown- how many views, how many trees, and how the hell would I make it all work.