I have a friend whose father is a self-made zillionaire who lives within an hour of Leavell's tree farm. Every summer, as part of their preparation to take over his business as adults, each was expected to plant 1,000 saplings by hand on the family farm where the previously forested land had been chopped down or burned during the Civil War.
(Only when they finished planting were they allowed to start work in the factory where they had to scrub, sweep, clean bathrooms, de-sludge filtering pits. Made for really fun summers, lol).
Hmmm…maybe Leavall and my friend's dad were in cahoots on this tree-planting concept.