In 2022, we planted over 100 trees, grasses, wildflowers, shrubs, and seedlings across a 10-acre plot of desert land. Here’s how it went, and what we plan to do next. — Part 12 in our For Every Star, A Tree publication. In the desert, you can smell the rain before it comes. We’ve been blessed with two weeks of intermittent rain here in California. In two days, we were able to capture 1,000 gallons of rainwater.