Planting a small forest in 24 hours (1440 trees) 

The saying goes "The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is today". I look forward to seeing them grow.

“Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in." - Great Work Beau!

i planted trees for two months like this i met a guy who lives near there and he told me the forest i planted in the early 80s is huge now. i didnt realize it at at the time but it might have been the most siginificant thing i did in my entire life

I'm not going to say that the world needs more people like Beau. I'm bad at telling people what to do. I'm just going to say that I hope one day I can become like him.

“70/30, I give it a 30% chance. The trouble with being an optimist is that 30% happens quite a bit!” Hahaha! Love it

Hey Beau, saw you were posting this video today so I decided to prepare by doing a challenge of my own: I work a desk job but luckily the city park is a minute walk away. I decided to run a 3/4 mile loop each hour over the course of my 8 hr. shift. A 6 mile day during my 9-5 isn’t too shabby. Will be running my last 3/4 mile shortly! Haven’t seen the video yet cause I plan to watch it tonight with the wife. I’m sure it will delight as always. Thanks for the inspo.

We're getting close to our 2 year update!! I hope we get to see how his daughters 2 trees are doing as well as the main batch.

I really enjoyed what he said about not making the entire farmland forest, but just the steep and wet parts where biodiversity can really shine. That’s the compromise we need more places to make a difference

Beau, you are honestly one of my favourite people on the Internet. Your ideas, your energy, your passion, they are the kinds of things that make living on this blue Earth worth it. You're great.

It would be amazing to see an update after a year to see how they look and how many survived. We want to see how the landscape changes over time! Who thinks this would be a great thing to see?? Great work Beau! World needs more and more of this. :)

I grew up in a small commune. In my teens I worked in gardening. I've planted hundreds of trees. Coming to visit and saying all of these trees frown up made me cry. Amongst the trees I planted were giant Sequoia and the thought of one my descendents seeing them in a hundred years from now is very exciting

I love a Beau Miles binge, man you're excellent. Protect Beau at all costs!

I really can't stress enough how much I want to see this after a few year's progress

I was really hoping this was filmed 2 years ago so we could see it now. Guess that's the state of things. Good work Beau

How about an update? Would love to see how they have done over the last 11 months.

Just binged about 20 of your videos before I finally got the urge to comment - your perspective is unique and inspiring, keep it up because I know how hard it can be to stay creative! Also, I'm keen to see how the mini forest is coming along!

I feel like those last two trees might well have the most impact. Life is not just about the things we do, but it's about how those actions affect others. Raising a conscientious and environmentally aware child is bound to have an impact, and letting her play with those trees is a small, but not insignificant part of that.

It feels like you've done more in one day than most people will do with their entire lives. You are an inspiration of incredible magnitude.

I hope we get yearly updates. I think it's wonderful, what you're doing. May you and yours be blessed

Please do an update on the forest! super excited to see how much it has grown yet

You planted 1438 trees and the seeds of inspiration to generations. Thank you.

Bloody great film Beau!

One more year until we see the progress! I remember watching this when it came out, can't wait to see how they've grown

That was one of the most amazing physical feats I've ever seen...and with such modesty...and with such an amazingly wonderful goal...making something good that will outlast us all. Well done as always Beau.

I've farmed for a living, and watching him run around in the beginning I was screaming "slow down you idiot, you're gonna be dead tired out before you hit 6 hours let alone 24!". 7:15 he's talking about being more sore and tired more quickly than he expected. I had to chuckle a little bit just as the old farmer I worked for chuckled as he watched me run myself into the ground over a couple hours on my first day. You learn to work steady instead of super hard. I used to plant 1000-10,000 plants a day (depending on if i was doing it by hand or with a machine) for the first few weeks of the season. When you've got that much work ahead of you, you learn to shift it in to low gear, work out a system, and bang it out. Running ends up making things take longer, rushing makes you slow. Rushing is how you make mistakes, make messes and break things(including yourself). If you work yourself dead to get a 3 hour job done in 2, the next 9 hours of work today is going to be hell. Plants don't wait for you, and they don't care how you feel, and there are only so many days in a year. Thanks for pulling those memories out, I hadn't thought about my first days farming in quite a while. Great video. edit: When you started talking about running at high test, feeling that drive to just burn energy, get something done, then mentioned wanting to see something at the end of expending all that energy, you really picked the right thing to do. There's nothing like your legs just being jello, you're soaked in sweat and blood, your hands are cramped, blistered and bleeding, you cant lift your arms over your head theyre so tired, your back is destroyed from bending over a million times, you're hungry, and you just want to lie down but you look back at the field(s) you planted/weeded/harvested that day and its the best feeling in the world, knowing you did that, what its to become, its incredibly satisfying and right in your face.

Extremely inspiring. Thank you. Makes me want to do it too

I really admire your ability to just get out and do the things. This is such a great channel 💜

Beau Miles: Set up a donation page or donation on youtube so we can all chip in to help you buy trees for further projects. Absolutely love what you have done.🌲🌲🌲

This reminded me of planting trees with my grandfather growing up. Though he is now too old to plant any more trees, the trees we planted are growing strong.

Great Beau! I have planted 140 Mahogany, 5 Mango, 5 Guava, 30 Malabar Neem, 10 Teak wood and some other trees in my farm. Love the way you did it with commitment. GOD bless you Beau!

We planted last year 1820 trees in about 3 weeks. Here in Bavaria we have the problem of a bug which kills our mono-forests planted 50 years ago. Keep up the good work folks

Almost 2 years now. Looking forward to the follow up

Not all heroes wear capes-but Beau should. Outstanding human, narrator, videographer, family man and all round good fella.

I feel privileged to be able to have watched this. It’s like a fine cocktail of insanity, perseverance and selflessness. I’m amazed. Thanks for doing what you do.

Beau, I just started watching your channel. I love the way you speak and think. These ideas are all so captivating. Thank you for some of the best content I've seen on here in awhile. Can't wait for the update video!

Love to see the diverse range of trees! I feel like most people on a lot of projects like this mass plant one kind which is good but the biodiversity is really crucial to the survival of an ecosystem. Would love to see a 1 year update on the place to see how it's going! this is really awesome

Imagine if more of us did this. We could solve the desertification, etc.

Such an inspiration Beau! It's just what I need, thank you!

I saw this episode when it first came out and I was absolutely blown away by your vision and dedication. The amount of energy and impact you made that one single day will carry forth into the future to benefit everyone who gets the pleasure of entering the space you have helped mother nature create. Bless you brother. Namaste I promise to have a day like this before I die.

This is by far my favourite youtube video in the entire world! Have watched it at least 50 times since it's come out when I feel unmotivated. Never fails to put a smile on my face and inspire greatness in my life! Cheers Beaudie! Keep up the amazing work :)

I could honestly listen to Beau talk about anything and I literally mean anything. Incredible story teller and even more incredible filmer. Love all of his videos. You don’t realize how much you’ve missed Beau until he posts another video

Perfect ending to story was your daughter’s pure laughter with her two trees from dad’s 1440. She’s precious 🥰 I love trees 🌲 . They save our earth

Thanks Beau. You wonderful man.

The quality of these videos are outstanding. There's an excellent mix of information, comedy, humanity, cool pictures/scenes, and more. I'm so glad I found this channel.

It seems Australia has suffered a similar fate to Ireland where I'm from. What was once a mixed native woodland oasis is now a biodiversity-barren agricultural machine, good on you mate, stuff like this really brings me immense joy. I respect it.

I've been seasonally planting trees for years now, usually mechanically with a tractor. 16,000 is my daily record.

Your determination and positive attitude are absolutely inspiring. Thank you for doing what you do!

thanks for the film Beau, incredibly inspiring stuff. got me all teary eyed

As always, poetry in motion. Thank you !

I've been thinking about doing the same on a creek near home for a few years. I'm Inspired to follow through now Beau, thanks for the vid. Looking forward to the follow up

Thanks a lot! Congratulations! 🌹💖🌹

Love your family and you great video with vibes all your mates are what makes Australian life you mate are awesome blessings thank you for these beautiful videos keep it up

I love that you did this by yourself and used what you could find for the stakes. If you did this again you should get tree planting bags this way you don’t have to carry the trees in your hands and can just keep them in the sides making it easier and more efficient. I work for a couple firms in the uk usually planting whips or plugs. 1 person can do around 500-6000 trees a day depending on the person, the terrain, weather and skill. It’s hard at first but after a couple days you can be planting them by the seconds. It is such a amazing and awesome thing to do if anyone is looking for work or just wants to go and plant some trees just go and find a firm or set it up yourself and get planting.

Would be cool to see an update every year! imagine the timelaps over 10 or 20 years!

Thank you, the world needs more man like you....here in India people are so non cooperative....my Dad planted around 100 trees in a patch of land that we own, but the neighbours deliberately fed those saplings to their goats overnight...my Dad is still trying though

I honestly love your personality thanks for the laughs and good thoughts!

Looking forward to the follow-up video titled "A mile a tree", where Beau runs 1440 miles

Beau, as an Australian conservationist I'd be very interested (I'm sure a lot of others would be too) in seeing a list of species you planted. Keep up the good work man

Looking forward to the follow-up film to see how the trees are doing and more insights from you. Great channel!

We need more people like you Beau.

As usual, epic video bro! ✌🏼😊

Hi Beau, l have grown up on a 300 Acre dairy farm out at drouin south. My dad has planted trees along every creek on the farm along with most of the drains springs and steep hills. All together we have roughly 37 acres of our farm planted in native trees. It has been great growing up on our farm and seeing native species such as wallabies and koalas that hadn’t been seen on our farm for many years come back to our farm as the bush grows back. I have found that I have a far better understanding and respect for the natural environment around me compared to most of the other kids at my school. I wish more farms would do the same as what we have done here on our farm. Can’t thank you enough for making this video and spreading awareness, hopefully this vid inspires others to do the same. Also I have a tip for anyone that’s planning to do what Beau has done in this video. I noticed he hadn’t sprayed the grass before planting the trees. It’s a good idea to kill the grass before you plant the trees so they don’t have any competition as they grow up and so that they don’t get smothered out by long grass and die

I have to say watching your videos is very inspirational. I don't always go do something afterwards but what a great feeling.

Thank you for your work.

I think the trees planted for May in "Mile an Hour"/"Mile with May" cancel out her unintentional sabotage

I truly hope Beau comes back in a couple years, just to show the progress of the trees. Such an amazing thing to do, good on ya!

Amazing Beau,all the best to you,cant wait for the update

Good luck to you, too! Very inspiring!

Beau, not only have you hopefully created a beautiful little forest, but will most likely make thousands of people smile with this film. Thank you for that! Cheers from the other side of the world!

The world needs more people like you buddy. Thank you for doing what you have done. I wish I can do something like what you have done.

I adore this video. I love that you thought about doing something and just... did it.

Eagerly awaiting the follow-up video beau! ❤️ Fantastic

When I was a backpackerin Australia, I had a job planting thousands of table grape vines. Took us months on end, loved every minute of it!

Mr. Miles you are a true inspiration and you just made my day. Renewing my faith in humanity is what you have done, no small task in trying times like these. In honor of you my family and I will be planting a native tree on our property here in Florida. We are naming it “Miles” after you. Thanks for sharing your wonderful story. Your Mates in the U.S.

I love this so much! Thank you

What a legendary effort Beau , I look forward to the time lapse in two years. You are a great man , keep doing what you do!

i wanna see progress reports over the years to come on how the trees are doing. good on ya beau, setting a great example.

Well done mate, very impressive. I do this kind of thing for a living, bringing back trees and hedges to barren farmland here in the Netherlands. But I limit myself to 8 hour workdays, 24 hours straight is madness.

Love this! Looking forward to the update on this newly tree-saturated paddock!!

Thanks for filming your awesome plan and story you created and shared with the world😊

I remember working as a tree planter when I was a student, they paid per tree. We calculated we needed to plant one tree every 3-6 seconds to make money. It was a hilarious adventure for myself and my roommate. Fun times

I’ve got to say when I clicked on this video expectations were average but you completely exceeded them the editing and storytelling amazing can’t wait to watch more of your content.

Inspirational... thank you Beau.

Thank you what you have done

Beau, I just want to say thanks, thanks for the random self experiments, the back yard adventures and all the small little times in between. Thank you for sharing these ideas with the world. Not only are we inspired to try new things but we are able to look deeper at them threw your eyes. Thanks Beau.

Whenever I try to explain the plot of your vids to people, they think it sounds like terrible viewing but little do they know they’re missing out on some of the most uniquely inspiring films. You’re a great storyteller Beau. Thanks for sharing.

Great video, thanks for posting!

I was thinking about this exact thing and your video came up! Cheers mate! You’re doing a good thing :)

This video goes beyond what a single person can achieve in 24 hours. What anyone of us does between now and the 2-year follow-up is just as significant and no doubt you'll keep inspiring people to do more (hopefully meaningful/selfless) things.

Always click on these videos as soon as I see them. Fantastic visual experience yet again!

You inspired me so much. I got awestruck by your commitment which sounded impossible to me for the first time.

this was one of my favorites ! awesome

scarily close to the world record for most trees planted in one day (15170). nice job beau!!

Your editor is worth his wieght in trees. Great story telling Beau. Thanks again

Thank you for doing what your doing. The trees need you as their ambassador. Keep up the good work.

Thanks Beau ,keep up the good vids with great outcomes

How beau doesn't have millions of follower is beyond me but each time I see a video it is the best part of the day ! Love the videos mate keep it up !

This has to be one of my all time favourite videos I’ve ever seen on RU-vid. What a beautiful idea, beautiful man and beautiful act. I can’t wait to see how this new life of a pasture evolves over the next few decades. Your sense of humour is also spot on. This video felt like such a big hug to my soul and I can’t wait to pay your act forward and take on my own project. Thank you xx

Thank you so much for doing this. So important and inspiring. Lots of growforce and best wishes.

what an awesome video, bloody hard yakka what you did mate much respect. I have 2 acres in NZ i live offgirid and have planted a food forest and i am slowly covering the rest in native trees, its the most rewarding thing i have ever done and the best life i could ever imagine doing