What do you guys think is the best quick snack on the block? Quick to eat with lots of calories?

Hey,

Seems like most people here are Canadian brothers and lassies. I'm Scottish and did my first season in Australia last year and loved it.

I'll be in New Zealand for the next three years and want to set myself up at a company to come back to each season.

Does anybody have any recommendations for decent companies? Can be anywhere in the country.

Is anybody else in New Zealand and want to link up this year?

Cheers

Has anyone heard or worked for this company? They recently won a Mackenzie contract.

Hey I have 6 years of experience planting in BC. I took two years off to go to trade school but no dice. Anyone have any advice on jobs starting early out west? I'm also totally open to staying in Ontario and applied to Brinkman for fun. I'm just looking for clean trees and some money. And advice for finding a contract next season is appreciated

I managed to get an offer with outland, and I'm supposed to talk to someone soon to find a contract for me. I barely know anything about tree planting, but from what I've seen and heard, I want to give it the best shot I can. So what should I know? What will I need? Where should I try to get in if I stick with outland or otherwise? Any information is helpful

Has anyone used something other than rolls of plastic flagging tape to "flag" their land.

I'm kinda surprised that there isn't a non plastic alternative, like waxed paper or something

Using tape to flag your boundaries makes a lot of sense because you can tie it around trees, but it would be a huge waste of time if you tied your flag for each tree (which I've seen rookies do).

What else could you drop beside your planted tree besides flagging tape?

Questions for all the ambi planters (planters who can use their spade with either hand).

How did you start planting Ambi?

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How often do you swap hands?

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Is it worth it to learn?

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If you didn't start planting ambi your first year, how did you learn?

And for all the planter who aren't ambidextrous:

Would you want to be able to plant ambi?

What are your pros and cons of a motel/housing contract vs a bush camp? Debating if I should choose a contract based on the accommodation..

What’s the best cheap rain jacket you’ve ever had it’s gonna be my fourth season and I’m getting weak but I’m balling on a budget.

Hey y’all,

I wanted to make this post to ask how people manage working for companies that run shorter seasons to accumulate enough hours to qualify for EI, which I think is 700 in BC (correct if wrong). For example for companies with 55 planting days, even logging 11 hour days would only amount to 605 hours over the season. Is it then time to look for other companies for work? If anyone has experience with this also was this easy enough to make the change/ also was it manageable without a personal vehicle to get to different camps?

Would appreciate any advice, as some of the companies I’m most interested in run shorter seasons and would like to make it all work to qualify for EI if possible when the season ends :)

On my last post, SSBMSapa commented the following:

"You don’t have to be great to be an athlete"

What would you label the non athletic part of the job?

I personally think that we're also like designers, but even "designer" doesn't fit well.

For you what fits better?

(x + Athlete) = Planter

What is x?

I remember seeing the owner commenting around here for a little while, anyone have any info on how their 2024 went? Or new info for 2025?

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Just looking to get a bit of perspective and experience from people who have been doing fire mitigation work in the shoulder seasons of planting.

Do you like it? Does it pay well? Can you piece rate it or safer on a dayrate?

Also wondering where the contracts come from? Is it Fed, provincial or municipal?

Seems like you could start an operation without too much overhead. It seems like Bc is the only province taking this stuff seriously, maybe AB as well. Where I live while I’ve heard murmurs they might have funding for it there’s nothing really going on, so I’m hoping to understand a bit more about it so I can be ready if someday it gets funding.

I tend to rock Canada west caulk boots during the season, wanted to crowdsource some other boots. Bonus points for something with a bit of aesthetic appeal (I find zamberland style hikers pretty ugly tbh)

Have you ever used the Waking Up app?

It's a meditation app which teaches how to become aware of awareness, then to just be awareness (kinda like "flow state" or the feeling on psilocybin when you forget who you are). The label for this state that the app uses is called

Non Dual Awareness

When I plant sometimes I'd listen to the conversations on the app. The founder Sam Harris interviews teachers of the Non Dual Meditation Practice.

Often at the end of the planting day, I'd practice meditation for 10 minutes.

It's pretty powerful stuff and is the basis for Buddhism, although the app isn't religious.

Let me know if you understand what I'm taking about by commenting on this post, I'd love to meet another planter who has experienced this esoteric practice!

PS: I'm not affiliated with the Waking Up App, this post is not an ad, it's a search

I recently bought a class C motorhome and was planning on taking that planting for my first season. I probably should have asked this before I bought it but has anyone else planted out of an RV in BC? If so how was it? My main concern is bush roads and not being able to take the RV with me when moving camp. I have a tent and what not just in case but I'd really like to avoid motel shows if I can. Any advice is helpful

Hey everyone, completed my rookie season this July in Ontario and except to be returning for another season in May, I wanna bring a vehicle up with me but don't really have the budget to buy an suv or truck and my 2009 two door civic is beginning to look like my only option. Does anyone here have experience taking vehicles (sedans, coupes) in northern ontario bush roads? what was your experience?

Hi all, I worked my first tree planting season this year and knew instantly that I would want to return for more seasons. Unfortunately I was working for a company that I won’t bother naming but had a number of incidents of exploiting and treating employees terribly, that definitely dampened the season.

I was hoping for some advice on BC based companies that would hire second year planters, preferably that run bush camps and who have a solid reputation for just being an honest company who treat employees fairly. Good tree prices and contracts of course are a bonus. Companies that hire rookies are no problem, but maybe would like to avoid another rookie mill? Basically any advice to point in the right direction would be very much appreciated, especially if it’s based on personal experience. Thanks y’all!

(P.s. Any companies that also compensate for things lie reefer and camp chores would be great, as in the last company we were made to do all of this and more for free, amounting to many hours of unpaid labour over the course of the season. But this is not essential, as I guess many companies do the same).

Hi all. I'm a prospective first-time planter and I've recently applied for a Canadian work visa through the IEC and everything has been initially accepted.

The only thing is... I will not physically have the work visa until I get to Canada.

Below is the wording I received:

"Your application to work in Canada has been initially approved by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. The final decision to issue you a work permit and allow you to enter Canada is made after an examination by an officer in Canada."

I'm wondering if I can start applying for tree planting jobs now, or if I will first have to go to Canada and finalise the process for employers to accept me?

Can anyone who's been in this situation shed some light please? It would be a shame if I went all that way just to not get accepted by any employers.

In January I'm going introduce a FREE system which will greatly reduce the learning curve of planters and enrich the way that planters communicate on the block.

Instead of just telling you about it like a professor or theorist, I'd like to show how it solves your problems.

The goal is to get at least 50 UNIQUE errors commented on this post.

The errors could be caused by yourself or someone else. They could have directly affected you, or you they could be just witnessed by you.

Here's what's been commented so far, in no particular order

1. Bagging Up too many trees at once
2. Planting leaners thoughout the entire piece
3. Planting only the cream
4. Leaving a hole
5. Planting J-roots
6. Getting Hypothermic
7. Ghostlining
8. Cutting someone off when partner planting (boxing someone in)
9. Deadwalking
10. Not bagging up enough trees
11. Getting lost on your way to your piece
12. Not seeking treatment for injuries
13. Not Listening to your partner
14. Not backfilling
15. Assuming you understand the instructions about where to plant
16. Not asking questions when being cut in
17. Being unaware of how long your bag up are
18. Planting fault trees on purpose

This ad was just shown to me.

Have you ever been to a camp with cold plunges?

This past season we would walk into the Okanagan Lake after work, which was pretty cold until June.

https://www.facebook.com/share/1ShvxFDxjQ/

BTW: I don't endorse this ad, it seems like a lot of $$$$

I’m still in high school. But I want to try tree planting. It’s always interested me

What are the requirements? Such as age and education. What’s the pay like? Is that a stupid question idk! I’m in southern Ontario

What is a good rookie camp in Eastern Canada? I haven't heard the best things about Brinkman, I applied to Havemen, and I applied to Irving. Also heard Irving is trash? Im just trying to find a good company that wont be hell. Any recommendations ?

Anyone have any modern planting slang that you and your friends or camp came up with?

These are some of my favourite more recent terms I've heard, I didn't come up with any of them.

Refugees: These are what you call planters who left another company and contract that was so bad that they had to flee and join your company. "Those new _______ refugees from Fort St. John sure look crusty to me"

The Burn Lottery: When you're on a burn contract or burn block you're playing the burn lottery!! Sometimes you come up flush and sometimes you come up bust, but the burn lottery goes on!! The burn lottery is a fickle mistress. You could get the burn cream or you could end up with a pile of rock. Some get rags some get riches.

Cream-Babies: These are planters who ball in cream, and as soon as the land gets bad they lose all motivation or sit at the cache/truck. It's a contract close, get the fuck back in the land.

Cream-Rats: This one is kind of offensive, I wouldn't go calling people it lol, but it's when people come into your piece and stay in the cream and avoid the schnarb. This is rare, but I HAVE SEEN IT.

Anyone have any terms for people who refuse to bag up big enough to fill the massive back and instead line in and out of narrow pieces all day so they pinch for everyone that comes into their piece later? Asking for a friend.

I'm looking for a collection of tree planting art.

Planting can greatly inspire people, it would be interesting to see what planters are inspired to make. There probably isn't a lot of it. It would be nice if they were all in one place.

• Drawings
• Paintings
• Sculpture
• Comics (Graphic Novel)
• poetry

I would be so psyched to see some sculpture of planting if it exists.

Share some of your own too!

Besides the size of the group and connections to Facebook Profiles, does KKR have things that this Subreddit does not?