The Phantom Planter

 It was this day 6 years ago I did my first ever phantom planter post! These are the pics and this is what the post read- "5 native oak trees phantom planted in a field near you. Cost me £7.50 and will provide us with that very handy stuff called air for the next 900 years or so. Phantom Plant, Guerilla Plant, what ever way you want, lets make it a trend to plant trees. I Challenge You to Phantom Plant a Tree!".... That was my first ever post guys and I planted these trees on the way to Jampa Ling Buddhist Monastery to get The Phantom Planter blessed by the monks before I put my first post out. The first post I wrote after the blessing at the monastery. Since then guys its went to places I never dreamt off. People have been taking up this challenge and phantom planting trees in all corners of the world. The power of faith and belief with a bit of Buddha magic I believe! Its been the best 6 years of my life! Alongside my phantom planting my own healing and spiritual journey ha...

 Was this day last year my big Glasgow pal came over on the boat with him mum to plant his fathers ashes in with an apple tree. This marked the first tree planted at our new Lisnabreeny Community Orchard. (So many saying also on this old post that ashes will kill the tree, I have planted many apple trees with loved ones ashes in with the planting and all these trees are doing fine. And this tree is thriving today! What I always say to people in the tree world when they are saying that this is wrong and will kill your trees is, have you did it the wrong way and watched for yourself? Most are only going by what they are told or read. I have did so many so called wrong things in tree planting and most of my plantings are still thriving today! Even RHS change their advice from time to time on the right ways to plant trees. The experts are still learning too.) We even got apples from this tree summer past and I picked them and brought them over to my big pals mum and she was well please...

 What is it with the Polish people and their work ethic? 3 of my good Polish mates , (well one of them is half Polish).  All of them work work work like no one I've ever met. Is it a Polish thing or what! One has practically 2 full time jobs and a handful of side line earners.  My other mate has a full time job Mon-Fri, an all day Saturday job, then a Saturday night shift and he fixes cars on the side on week nights!  Keeps my Phantom One Van running perfect. Everything has to be done right also with him, no cutting corners. He worked for me for many years in my old wheeling and dealing days and between him, his brother and me we built amazing businesses together. These guys were a breath of fresh air to me, you name it they could built it or fix it and nothing was ever a problem. And my other Polish gym mate, he just does 12 hour shifts 7 days a week that just seems to go on forever. And still he never misses the gym! I tell everyone about the one who worked for me,...

 Planted 6 apple trees yesterday with 2 of them being family trees in our phantom planters HQ!  Never planted family trees before, what a nice idea though.  Thank you for your contribution also to our mission. It will come in very handy as I've spend quite a lot of money last week on tree stuff.  I still have the offer on too guys if anyone in the Belvoir estate wants an apple tree planted in their garden for free! Available to Belvoir residents only. These heritage Irish apple trees I have though needs to be planted in gardens as they are quite small and will need some protection for the first couple of years.  Really want the whole estate one day full of so many different types of apple trees.  Some things I charge for guys, some things I dont. I try my best here to keep this movement true to how it all started out which was my Karma Yoga practice. Planting trees for the community and nature has always been my Buddhist practice of prayer in action.  ...

 Dont be limited by your own thoughts. Every time I mention in my posts about we should all grow our own foods and barter, you always get the comments saying, well what about people living in a block of flats with no balcony. You know something I've noticed over my life is positive mindsets CREATE and make things happen! Every entrepreneur I know always has their glass half full and against all the odds makes things happen.  For me I believe its the energy of enthusiasm. When we are enthused about something walls comes down and opportunities arise. We also cant expect to make things happen while our minds are elsewhere. I've seen many people whos businesses fail over the years and they're thoughts and energy are not into it. They set up a business and spend more time talking about football or music and wonder why the business fails. Anyone that makes anything of their life eats, sleeps and s**ts their idea.  I didnt go bankrupt years ago due to poor business acumen. All m...

 Reading an article about how they kill mice on wheat fields. Not only do they spray wheat with glyphosate, a deadly weed killer, but they then spray it also with another chemical called zinc phosphide to kill the mice. They have been having massive problems lately in Europe with plagues of mice and the war is on against them. What always baffles me is the weed killer they put on the wheat kills all other weeds around it but doesn't kill the wheat. WTF is the wheat made from if its not dying?? Would be great if we all grew our own foods and bardered. Chay Godfrey from crops not shops is promoting just that. A man of the earth who I've been following for some years now. We could all take a leaf out of his book. I have always said, I will be the apple tree man, my contribution to the community is apples which I will never stop planting. Be good if all of us grew one thing and shared with the community. I try my best to mimic the diet my previous ancestors have been eating for tho...