She Planted More Than 4,500 Trees in a Day and Found an Audience of Millions

Ontario resident Leslie Dart is seen in a July 15, 2022, handout image. The Canadian Press/HO-Leslie Dart

To plant more than 4,500 trees in one day, you don’t move like a gardener, you move like a machine.

In a video viewed millions of times on social media, Leslie Dart walks across a desolate and burnt landscape in Saskatchewan. She plunges a small spade into the ground, levers open a hole, drops in a seedling, then stomps the hole shut, barely breaking stride as she does it again, and again, and again.