Growing A Woodland: Ten Years In

[@billastell3753]

I love what you've been doing there Pam. I've been doing the same on my 30 acres in Canada for 38 years. Hard to believe how fast trees will grow. Or perhaps the time just slips by. Either way planting a tree, in my opinion, is planting some love for the future.

[@Joe.0oo]

Where in Canada are you? I’m in the Niagara Falls area, so I’m curious what species you’ve had success with!

[@billastell3753]

@@Joe.0oo Central Ontario northeast of Toronto. The list is long and each year I plant more. More than 20,000 trees in 38 years. This year I planted more swamp oak. I planted these 5 years ago in my heavy low land clay and they did well so I planted more. Jack pine is the only real failure.

[@RealGyoukai]

🙏

[@AK-xz7mp]

@@billastell3753 do u have a KZbin Chanel or anything…???

[@mrmadness2699]

‘Soil is acid, stoney, & poor,’ sounds perfect for chestnut! I understand it’s a fast grower too.

[@BigB932]

Love to see things grow. Everyone as a child should experience an old growth forest. It transforms the mind and soul. Imagine if the world stopped fishing and clear cutting for ten years. At the same time plant and rewild where ever possible. Nice to dream anyway. Great video!!

[@SamuelJamesSmith]

Fishing per se isn’t bad. Only industrial scale trawlers. Line caught fish is perfectly normal and has been done sustainably for thousands of years. It’s a grave misfortune that most of the countries with poor land management techniques, are also those that are most biodiverse.

[@SamuelJamesSmith]

@FilthyDankWastemanFabuless very few people/ fish though still

[@batyushki]

We are 3 years into our native tree growing in Ireland, it is a fun prospect looking forward to seeing them grow over the coming decades. We have some deer pressure but I'm hopeful that most will do well. We have them thickly planted and will thin when they get a bit bigger.

[@Qce-i6d]

Rewinding the meadows is especially important because it builds soil over time. Healthy soil is one the best ways of storing carbon, pulls it back into a usable form by life.

[@Nitka022]

What a beautiful place! Love the idea of trees with all the flowers for pollinators and fruits...absolutely stunning....

[@lordhanson476]

This is absolutely fantastic. I'm in the process of saving up for land to do this myself. I'm happy that others are doing this too.

[@littlemrpinkness295]

Just to see her at the beginning, ambling along in what looks like hundred-year-old forest, the startling caption saying 10 years old, was so amazing I couldn't stop watching. It all looks so peaceful and serene, and her relaxed way of talking just adds to the mood. I want to go there and sit for awhile.

[@ThePeterboroughPrairie]

the old trees are not 10 years old.... that's an old growth forest that her new planting creates a corrdior between.

[@DavidWoodArtist]

Really lovely and very envious of people who own a wood. I wonder if Woodlands TV or Pam could recomend a general book on understanding woodland growth, perhaps something not too scientific.

[@andrewkirby7834]

Beautiful work,the world desperately needs more people like you in it

[@stumpfarm3714]

I like what you are doing, just started some similar work on land that was clear cut in 2019.

[@OviHentea]

Love what you did! May many more land owners think this way. It may be that they grew slower because they didn't have competition for light. In more dense patterns, the shade one throws onto the next pushes them up towards the sky faster. This is employed in the Miyawaki forest technique

[@user-yn9oy5xc6y]

Thank you for your lovely presentation Pam. Well done to you and your husband.

[@jessicafisher2323]

Pam love the work you've done, keep going

[@antoniamontana5739]

Your living My Dream 🌳🌲🌾🌿🍄

[@WhatWeDoChannel]

That was interesting! Here in Southern Ontario Canada, when they are establishing new woodlands (which is a big thing now) they usually start with Red Pines planted in rows. After a few decades they will take out one row in four and thin out the poor quality trees from the remaining rows. Now other species will naturally grow up in the space opened up. I think it’s all about producing good straight timber trees.

[@CF1091]

Awesome video, you're doing a beautiful amazing thing 🙏❤️ Keep greening the land!!!!

[@natashalion8028]

Thank you, Godbless

[@niallmarshall4721]

These are the sort of people we need our kids to follow on Instagram. Pure knowledge 👌

[@kellymoss9663]

I absolutely love this, such a wonderful jobs you've done. I dream of doing the same

[@Jaeger04]

I don’t know if anyone will be able to answer my question, but I wanted to know wether Pam and her Husband planted those trees as small seedlings, or if they bought potted/root balled trees that were at least 4 foot tall.

[@jessicafisher2323]

Educated guess would be saplings to guarantee trees survival

[@tomo1168]

You may plant potted/rootballed trees in your garden. It woul'd be too expensive for woodland planting in huge quantities, and the transport woul'd be also a nightmare.

[@Stettafire]

@@tomo1168 Yeah, places like RHS etc let you buy saplings in bulk which makes it much cheaper

[@SamuelJamesSmith]

They’d likely be ‘bare root’. So just dug up from the nursery field and sent by post without pots or soil.

[@brettharter143]

Well done for planting native species. North East planted a bunch of fast growing california trees and the recent wind blew 40% of them down haha

[@ThePeterboroughPrairie]

i don't understand why we waste so much time and resources planting trees when we should be seeding them. the same thing happens in my neighborhood in Ontatrio. the city buys large street trees, upto $300 a piece, plants them, doesn't water them, and then most die their forst summer from heat stress. Planting trees is done more as a feel-good thing so people can feel like they're doing something, when we should be seeding large areas with pioneer species in order to create the habitat that leads to natural succession of a diversity of species. Poplar, birch, and maple produce thousands of small and easily scaterred seed, but it doesn't look as good I guess...

[@PlantNative]

She’s wonderful and so is the land!

[@nl4064]

the open ground bertween trees is where your insects, flowers and real bio is

[@bluebowser3121]

If your ground is acidic you should plant blueberries. I know they're not native, but they will be adored by humans and birds alike.

[@Rumade]

The native equivalent would be bilberries. You find them in woods all over Wales.

[@viyanuomepfhuo5717]

Nice, very beautiful.

[@jmck6320]

Excellent work! Have a look at the work of Colette O'Neill at Bealtaine Cottage.

[@muzzo23]

Love these kinda videos

[@mihancic]

Wonderful!

[@packing999]

My dream is to plant my own woodland

[@kevinatherton1006]

Outstanding

[@gerardineomalley7259]

Excellent 😍

[@monicaswavel6074]

Very nice!

[@d.w.stratton4078]

I wonder if instead of transplanting trees you free them in place from seed they would grow faster? Generally transplants lose their taproot which slows growth considerably. Often trees from seed will overtake transplanted trees within a couple years.

[@d.w.stratton4078]

I should say, my source for this is a permaculture design course and personal anecdotal experience. I don't have a study or anything to reference.

[@billastell3753]

The benefit of planting seedlings is you can see them and baby them. Seeds you won't be able to do this with because typically you won't mark where a seed is planted. But hey... do both.

[@Stettafire]

TBH a tree will regrow it's taproot so it's not a big deal

[@ColinMill1]

We decided to concentrate on the slightly over 30 truly native species of tree that have been in the UK for at least 450,000 years. Since the climatic changes over that time has been considerable I don't think we need worry about their ability to cope with what is coming.

[@XlendneryGD]

Good job

[@jollyjokress3852]

This is heaven

[@anyascelticcreations]

Lovely. 💖

[@jollyjokress3852]

maybe you can do compost tea the you can acceleration of soil formation.

[@paulwhalley4746]

Love this. Beautiful ❤

[@elsonmendes3224]

BATCHE (Universo) Rei do Universo. England plant forest than they see Land is beautiful.

[@napoleonbonn9991]

This is great, mowing would really help them

[@bosse641]

Lovely project :o)

[@maxgoldscotland9389]

well done

[@timdougall5415]

You clearly know your stuff in terms of succession and ecology. Have you ever considered speaking to a truffle hunter as developing woodland is often a good place to find them.

[@Adam2050]

Where's the wild flowers? Or water source?

[@hotbit7327]

I really appreciate the sparse planting you initially did. Most woodlands are too dense, and trees prevent low-level plants from establishing, after 30-50 years they grow very slowly and have small canopies with virtually no branches. Trees become zombie trees and many fell, those that stand barely stay alive. I'm tired of the argument that carbon-capturing is only a function of the tree numbers. Most woodland planting is not only against science, but even common sense. And we have the 2020s... P.S. Great job! P.S.2 Community interplanting mentioned at 03:10 was very silly on the community's behalf

[@rodrigoarenas2230]

Planting dense is not just about carbon capture. As you say, the carbon capture argument is not a good one. However, one should plant dense but genetically diverse native trees to weed out the weak and grow strong trees that can succeed in the plot of land and resist disease. Trees take a long time to grow and you want to ensure you're not wasting your time and energy growing trees that are weak. Believe me, you will lose many to disease so you plant as many as you can. We even keep some of the trees that are sick to continue spreading the disease and find the ones that are resistant. You would be shocked how well that selection process can work. My great great great grandparents were doing this and the trees they planted that survived the selection process still live on into my own lifetime and have resisted droughts, disease, forest fires (including ones started from bombings during the civil war) that none of our neighbors resisted as successfully as ours. So you are selecting for resistance. We also use density to select for early and high productivity without having to resort to cloning and losing our genetic diversity in plots we use for agriculture. It is true that density can worsen droughts and forest fires but you limit the density based on how common droughts and fires are. My family is from Northern Spain (green Spain) nestled in the Liebana valley within the Cantabrian mountain range where we get a good amount of water but not as much rain as the coastal side to the north. We do get droughts and increasingly forest fires that primarily start in the monoculture eucalyptus or pine farms. My grandmother owns land on the rainier northern side (literally rains almost everyday) and they planted much denser woodlands than could be done in the Liebana Valley. If we decided to do something similar to our south, in the more dryer Spain, we would have to grow less dense woodlands but would have to compensate by planting on larger plots of land to be able to select. The ultimate goal for my family has been resistant highly bio-diverse native woodlands that requires no human interference by the time they reach some level of similarity to local old growth for the plots we use for conservation and habitats for endangered animals (like the Cantabrian brown bear and Iberian wolf). For the plots used for agriculture, we have a similar goal but of course will continue to interfere to ensure profitability. Mind you that we do not interfere anywhere near to the level of interference used in industrial farming.

[@blakespower]

you let as many trees grow as possible then weed out the smaller ones are sickly ones

[@wyominghome4857]

What is missed here, and something I'm very aware of in Wyoming, is the need to create fire breaks. I am reforesting my property, planting trees in groups with 30-50 feet gaps between groups. I look for species that are fire resistant and keep much of the undergrowth mowed, particularly near the road, where people are likely to toss cigarette butts, and near the house. Dense woods look pretty, but also aid in the spread of fire.

[@Hakkeholt]

You can also send in a herd of cattle to graze it down a couple of times a year, for a few days it won't hurt your trees. Grass is still that green cause cattle made soil fertile long ago. And harvesting carbon with cattle is way better for the environment than mowing it with a machine, or letting it die and compost for nothing.

[@seanhayden103]

We have 100k+ DF up for grabs and are open to orders for plant materials if anyone has projects and is in need of tree's, Fir's,pines, cedars, oaks, spruce madrone ECT. Please let me know we are located in Northern California.

[@SAMBUT]

thanks for sharing, sound very exciting - wondering, is there a limit as to what type of trees am allowed to grow in a woodland ? why not at least grow more walnut trees in woodlands ? can I grow fruit trees in a woodland ? how dense must a woodland be; I like the idea that there is plenty of light in it so there is plenty of food for deers and the like - how high of a percentage of fields anyway can be part of a woodland ? are there plants that I am not allowed to grow in a woodland for it to actually need to classify as agricultural land ? I guess I can find these answers somewhere online, I just thought I would find them by listening to a video, but haven't found one yet

[@ryanalexander3088]

Yes, limiting factors will be weather, soil type, aspect.. Geography, sunlight hours.. The roots of Walnut trees deter certain species from growing nearby so you could have walnut but position it with others that tolerate it, they tend to be more open canopy trees aswell so they need more space and light. Not sure about your other questions

[@SAMBUT]

@@ryanalexander3088 thanks for your advice, sorry for being slow to follow this up

[@blakespower]

I hope these trees will be safe 100 years from now and not turned into a housing development

[@WvhKerkhof]

It is 1 past 12.

[@anniejelly2775]

HI Pam, we are just about to buy woodland in the UK, the previous owners are part of the woodland grant scheme, do you know if the inspectors come onto the land often??

[@regplate2923]

If I won the lottery I would buy up as much arable land/ cattle meadow etc and plant it as woodland then leave it to the state in my will.

[@MassiveChetBakerFan]

Don't leave it to the state. Leave it to a well-run local charity...

[@bayoustate9481]

I live in Northeast Louisiana. I've planted ab 35 trees in my city the past 10 years. Climate change is real seeing how you go from summer to fall to winter then to spring. That's climate change.

[@hotelsierra86]

Why in the name of God does woodland need to be managed? The UK is one of the most wildlife impoverished countries in the word because of woodland management. Let it live it’s own life.

[@antoniescargo2954]

Foodforests, permaculture.

[@ldnuk482]

Well if I ever win the Euromillions I will be buying up land to do such projects myself

[@TeslaKuhn8]

I've always wondered if ancient groves being protected by various cults all over the world were the remnants of some ecological disaster in the past.

[@bayoustate9481]

The climate changes day to day. Your trees will grow and contribute

[@MrGman6897]

Nice! Although it looks like Ash die back has taken the young ash trees. It’s currently ravaging Ash where I am atm

[@billastell3753]

Time to plant some different varieties. By the time/if the ash dies a baby of some other species will grow to take it's place.

[@voyager1108]

what a nice lady

[@jontalbot1]

Interesting you favoured oaks over limes. Limes were the dominant species in the wildwood so have the greatest ecological value. For propagation they rely on fallen trees sending up suckers which is why there are so few of them compared with other species. As far as l can tell they don’t have great commercial value but someone else might know differently. The other issue is if you allow trees to assume their natural shape as we do in this country, their eventual commercial value is much lower because of all the knots, relative lack of straight timber. It’s the reason why most wood in Britain is burnt and not used in furniture etc. The low commercial returns is a big reason why so much woodland has been grubbed out.To really sustain our woodlands in the long term people need incentives. Not every owner is happy to see land producing no significant financial return.

[@blakespower]

good for you the UK needs more broadleaf NATURAL forests not those horrid Pine tree plantations

[@Hakkeholt]

Carbon capture ? What about capturing it in grazing grasslands.. And harvesting the cattle (also carbon) for food. If you want to capture carbon, the grass has to be grazed or harvested! No deere or roo can graze enough as you see. Well managed grasslands are a huge carbon sink, these new forests ideas are just a big money sink.

[@bataafeub2472]

Plant linden tree

[@csn583]

Big enough to fell? Why is this already being thought of in this extractivist way?! Just let it mature, there's no replacement for a mature ecosystem.

[@dinonoobster4460]

Takā the non native trees out

[@cedriccbass-jp8ky]

if climate change is geoengineering or (chemtrails) then I know what it is.

[@jameshudson169]

are you going to reintroduce the hyena?

[@josephyearwood1179]

Filmmaker and landowner didn’t even bother to show an old picture nor footage of the land 10 years back so people could aweigh/see the difference. Could all be a psyop for all we know. Sigh.

[@davidbettney785]

You lost me at climate change :(

[@euandick]

Lol, that’s not a great woodland... It doesn’t look like it’s had a close eye kept on it. Nice though, good effort.

[@johneaston197]

Don't worry about silly climate change. What you're doing may last multi hundreds of years or more and there will be all sorts of climate variations.

[@Stettafire]

Conspiracy theorist

[@t-unit4723]

You can’t eat burch or oak tree you can eat apple cherries plums etc

[@parsleyisthicc]

Tfw no forest creating gf to walk in the woods and collect apples with 🥲