In this week’s edition of Uncorked, we dust off our Canadian tuxedos and join Everett Bumstead in celebrating one of our beloved practices in this country: tree planting. Everett’s new documentary, One Million Trees, challenges our assumptions about the job and the highballers who share a passion and joy for life outside the 9-5.No two tree planters are the same. It’s a fact Everett lays bare at the outset of the conversation. In his 7-year career (in which he alone planted over 500,000 trees), he’s spent time on the block with lawyers, models, and triathletes alike. Throughout the discussion, he shares a love and appreciation for all the skilled labourers who traverse the land, their value measured in the work they do. His biggest fear? It’s not the long hours, the unpredictable weather, the swarms of mosquitos or the extreme solitude… it’s being tethered to a job he can coast in.One Million Trees Documentary: https://gem.cbc.ca/media/absolutely-canadian/season-20/episode-23/38e815a-0134fc83a86Treeplanting terms: https://www.tentree.com/blogs/posts/top-10-tree-planter-terms-everyone-should-know#:~:text=A%20highballer%20is%20a%20planter,the%20shortest%20period%20of%20time.

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