{"id":2235,"date":"2025-09-24T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/?p=2235"},"modified":"2025-09-24T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T16:00:00","slug":"beau-miles-marathon-single-day-planting-project-sprouts-a-new-forest-in-an-australian-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/?p=2235","title":{"rendered":"Beau Miles\u2019 Marathon, Single-Day Planting Project Sprouts a New Forest in an Australian Field"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Beau Miles<\/a> is a nature-lover, adventurer, and a self-described oddball who makes stuff from other people\u2019s junk. Based in Australia, he delves into urban foraging on his YouTube channel<\/a>, wrote a book called The Backyard Adventurer, <\/em>and has made numerous films about everything from building a tiny cabin to exploring Sydney\u2019s most polluted river. Miles also happened to plant a small, flourishing forest in one day.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout being dramatic, it was easily the hardest thing I\u2019ve ever done in a single day,\u201d he says. \u201cBut it was also fun\u2014and the kind of thing that shifted how I intend to use my ideas and my body as a force for good. It was practical, hard, and an outcomes-driven use of time and energy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Miles planted one tree per minute for 24 hours\u2014that\u2019s 1,440 in total\u2014and when he made the initial video<\/a>, he promised to return every two years to report on its progress. In a recent update, he revisits the 2021 marathon project, documenting the wildlife that has moved in, wandering beneath healthy, young trees, and building a small fire from scrounged wood.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a special day because I really felt like the project had landed,\u201d Miles says. \u201cI had a cup of tea in the new forest, from water boiled on a fire made from the forest itself. It\u2019s perhaps the most profound cup of tea I\u2019ve ever had.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another video that Miles posted in July set a virtual one-month timer on an endeavor to turn his streaming channel into a force for good. With funds from advertising, he aims to purchase and plant even more trees. Follow his updates on YouTube<\/a>, Instagram<\/a>, and his site<\/a>. (via Kottke<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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