The Dirt: Confessions of a Tree Planter

And we're back!!! For many of you that aren't aware I took a hiatus from the shovel this summer and traded it for a hammer to pound on some rocks for money. So I have been mostly out of service, with ...

12 Jan 202234min

Jeremie Drainville is a longtime vet in this industry, who has circled his life around planting in so many ways. Recently he has evolved forms and come into and developing his love of photography in a...

27 Des 20211h 22min

Jeremy Young works as a tree planter in northern Ontario. He was born in Canada but also has French citizenship. He is currently a 4th year environmental and urban sustainability student at Ryerson Un...

16 Des 20211h 11min

Elisha Peterson is based in Golden, BC and has been on the road of becoming a pilot throughout her treeplanting career. Elisha started in Ontario and we go over how the transition went for her decidin...

2 Des 202148min

Pete is based in Nelson, BC and has been planting for his entire adult life. We talk about how planting began and has evolved for him over the years, now being able to work for most of the year from h...

24 Nov 202139min

Will Stewart is the crew boss of Jeremy Young from Episode 13 (https://anchor.fm/the-dirt/episodes/Episode-13-The-Ontario-Perspective-with-Jeremy-Young-ec2tbf). He currently works in Ontario but has w...

13 Nov 202154min

Well, if you are involved in this community, you know who Dirk Brinkman is!! For those who aren't and who don't know, Dirk Brinkman is the mastermind behind everything we do in modern treeplanting tod...

30 Okt 20211h 29min

Today I sit down with Garth Hadley of Coast Range Contracting, a well-known tree planting company in British Columbia. Often company owners are simply the name of their company to many planters, so I ...

21 Okt 20211h 7min