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I think most of us have a hard time finding anywhere to plant.
If you're not a landowner, you'll have to volunteer somewhere, but I've looked it up before and there aren't that many opportunities in my country. The organization in charge of national forests has their own staff for it.
Ironically the best way to get into it here is to join a specific local fuel station chain's "donate a cent per liter and we match, every 25 cents is a tree" community, which occasionally reaches out to members to help plant all the trees they've received donations for. So the easiest way to get to plant trees is to... buy fossil fuels???
That's a very valid point, and I'll freely acknowledge that I am privileged enough to have the space to grow and plant trees.
Keep looking for those opportunities, though! I won't pretend to know the governance of your country, but if there are public spaces in your area there must be people who administer them, and they may be open to planting more trees if the public is behind it.
To be fair, public spaces in my country already have loads of trees in most places. In my city, there's a park that doesn't get mowed because they're letting it grow into a grove. The trees are also very tall and healthy. It's goddamn beautiful. Incidentally it's also part of my commute whenever I walk (which depends on how early I manage to wake up, really)