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Lets get making our streets and estates into urban orchard for everyone to have free fresh food!

About another 20 apple trees planted.

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 Must have planted another 20 apple trees yesterday. The variety was a native Irish apple called kemp. This is going to be lifelong learning project for me, from start to finish this whole orchard has been created by us.  It was us that selected the cuttings, the rootstock, grafted them together and nurtured for a year in a polytunnel.  Now these apple trees have been planted out in what is now called Lisnabreeny Community Orchard. Even all the memorial and tree names tags have been hand stamped by us. Its amazing what we can create when we direct our energies in life in a more positive way. The other day I went for a dander and I seen these hawthorn saplings I phantom planted about 3 years ago. I must have planted around 30 of them.  When I stumbled across them in the wild bigger than me the other day I couldn't believe it.  I got this amazing feeling in me seeing them all thrive! What was special about these hawthorn trees aka Fairy trees is they were given to...

An afternoon planting and chanting!

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 Heading out this afternoon for some planting and chanting  Planting Kemp variety today. I'm sure many have heard of kemp. A pretty famous apple that used to be sold around the doors of Belfast by the bucket load and in many cases buckets of apples were swapped for rags. My wee mum said this is what happened in Ardoyne when she was growing up. Peace and love  The Phantom Planter Feel free to support me guys.  https://paypal.me/thephantomplanter?country.x=GB&locale.x=en_GB

First Buddha Beds mattress problem!

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 Had my first Buddha Beds online mattress problem yesterday.  A lady had ordered a honeyB Galaxy mattress, sold as medium to firm rating mattress. (Be mindful with firm ratings as this can vary depending on your weight. If say someone at 25 stone lies on this it may not be that firm. If someone at 10 stones lies on it, it may feel very firm).  But anyhow the lady ordered it, slept on it for a few nights and says it's too firm for her and to be honest said a few things that really pulled on my heart strings also. You know me with the Big Buddha heart and all that, you'll not get compassion from the big corporations!  So I refunded the lady instantly and told her to give the mattress to charity.  My mattresses come compressed and shipped by courier. Once they are out of the box and expanded it would cost me more than the mattress to get returned. So best I just refund and take it on the chin.  I'm trying to build a new business from scratch here and I know if...

Anyone want to help out South Belfast?

 Good morning guys, If anyone in the Belvoir estate area or South Belfast would like to come and help out at the Phantom Planters HQ to pull back grass from around our fruit trees please feel free too. Pop down anytime you want and work away just like I'm doing in the video. If you dont know where it is Google search Belvoir Memorial Orchard. Doing this can really help prevent disease giving the lower parts of the trunk the ventilation it needs and pulling away the weeds and grass thats competing with the tree is a big help too. Please guys if anyone is going to do this to always do it by hand, no strimmers or lawnmowers to be used here, This orchard is a utopia for all life. Just yesterday as I was pulling the grass back from one of the trees this massive frog was hibernating at the base of the tree, this orchard is home for all life. No pesticides/herbicides are to be used here also, keep it real, keep it natural. I'm a great believer that we must listen to nature, if a tree ...

I'm not for sale.

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 Have noticed facebook has been putting in adds with my videos which I never consented too. I think I've managed to get this sorted now and got it turned off. Over the years I've been asked by lots of agencies to market stuff for them or allow adds on my posts and videos and I've always said no. I have been offered funding over the years also from government bodies saying they can give me grants to help and stuff, I've always said no too. All that stuff doesn't sit well with me and I really dont know who I'm aligning with either, I'm very aware of what energies I get entangled with.  I got entangled with some of the biggest gangsters around growing up thinking this is great making a fortune but slowly these people infect and pollute you.  And thats not to say that I wasnt that person either that infected and polluted the people around me either.  I've caused a lot of mayhem and madness through my greed for money! Growing up in the underworld I've see...

This is a grassroots movement!

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 Facebook have been automatically turning on adds with my videos. Its turned off now guys. I do not align with any other advertising bodies.  All my phantom plantings and maintenance of my social media platforms is supported and funded by you guys and that's the way it will always stay.  I've been offered money by all sorts of government bodies and advertising agencies over the years. It's not for me. Thank you though.  This is a community grassroots movement run by people for the people who's hearts are in the right place for nature and community.  Peace and love  The Phantom Planter.

Turning the Hood into a nature loving Buddhahood!

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 This was the first time I ever seen one of my phantom planted trees in flower!  This is a pic from about 9 years ago right outside the house where I grew up, the tree is still standing today!  Couldn't believe the excitement back then seeing your pear tree in flower, I hadn't even coined the word phantom planting back then, it was environmental graffiti for me!  Peace and love! I challenge you to phantom plant a tree! Anywhere, anytime, any place..... If you like what I do and share you can support me on patreon https://www.patreon.com/ThePhantomPlanter Or by clicking the PayPal link below and help keep me planting and chanting.  https://paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=FAJZHB3TBXMSL&source=url