The Phantom Planter

 Last month I went over to Scotland to explore the history of Dalriada - (the ancient Ulster Scots Kingdom) and also to see Fingals Cave which has been on my bucket list for many years now.  At the top of the Dalriada fort it mentions that they had strong links with the St Columba monestary which lay 37 miles to the west of the Dalriada fort.  This was the first time I ever heard St Columba mentioned was at the top of this fort.  After that I had to head to the Isle of Mull to get another boat from there to FIngals cave. On the way back from Fingals Cave we were offered to stop off and see St Columbas monestary on Iona Island.  I got off and had a nosey around. What a place this is! It was there I found out that St Columba came from Ireland to set up this early Celtic/Christian monestary which I believe is one of the longest standing still active monasteries in the world. After that I never gave St Columba a second a thought.  Just a couple of days ago me a...

 Got some good coverage about the orchard massacre in both our 2 main newspapers here -   The Belfast Telegraph and the Irish News. Check out their Facebook pages guys to read the stories. For some reason Facebook has now limited how many links you can share overwise I would have put the links up here for you to read. What a weird one.  Thank you Belfast Telegraph and the Irish news for this.  Anyhow guys, these 4 heritage Irish apple trees was all I managed to retrieve from the massacre. Look how they have been ripped apart. Over 100 of these small apple trees we had phantom planted here on open community/common land. This land isn't owned by any individual. The majority of my phantom plantings are on community/common land. If land is overgrown and not being maintained with no boundary markers or fences then there are old laws to say this is common land for the community. These open spaces that are left untouched will naturally rewild themselves anyway.  A...

 Good morning guys,  Just want to thank everyone for the messages of support and for all the donations. Also loving all the pics of people who have went out and planted some trees in memory of the massacre of our community orchard. Also the amount of messages and pics from people saying I've inspired them to become phantom planters over the years is epic. I get a bit emotional reading them sometimes the impact I've had on people.  I would say this movement has inspired at least a million trees to be planted all over the world from I started this Phantom Planter page nearly 7 years ago now.  I have said that this massacre of our second largest community orchard will be the catalyst for something new. It really has got me thinking about a few things and how I'm going to go forward.  The money I have gotten in donations will be going towards setting up The Phantom Planters Trust.  This is something I've been wanting to do for sometime now but just never had th...

 Hardly slept a wink last night thinking about all them fruit trees that got cut down. I've had some serious things happen to me in the past and I've always been able to get a nights sleep but this barbaric attack on our second biggest community orchard has really got me down.  The memories that have been created here over the years from planting loved ones memorial trees to taking large groups of school kids out with masks phantom planting. So many people had so many good memories planting here.  Now all the 100s of community fruit trees are gone. This has to be a criminal offence of some sort.  Honestly guys, these orchards are my life. Years and years of work has went into these. The money spent and the time and effort carrying water, mulching, pruning and so much more maintenance, all this has really saddened me big time.  Nearly every walk I go on also involves walking around these orchards always making sure they are ok.  Much of this orchard was my h...

 I have so many spots like this that I'm going to fill up with heritage apple trees.. These ones here were planted winter past and all I've did is mulch and stamp down all the surrounding weeds and grass once this year to give them more light. A good load of mulch seems to have really done the job too. You can see the grass is starting to die back a bit coming to the end of the summer. Can safely say these apple trees are well established.  I phantom planted 9 apple trees here and have 9 surviving trees.  Its all biomass for the earth also when we plant trees. We all need to be planting something into the earth to help create more biomass. When you look around what us humans the most invasive species to ever have lived here are doing to the planet its going to hit a brick wall one day. It already has in parts of the world. India is heading for a dust bowl soon. They say India has not long left for farming if it doesnt change how it does things.  We keep taking away a...

 Seen a man walking through the estate the other day eating an apple and I asked him where did you get that from? He said the apple tree up street, I have been picking one every day now for the past while he said and eating it on his walks.  I had phantom planted the apple tree many years ago and still today the positive vibration of it is still carrying on. Honestly made my day seeing him just causally walking down eating his apple.  Good deeds and acts of generosity elevates your state of mind is what the Buddhas tell us. The more good Karma we put out the more will come back to us. So simple but so true.  We are blinded by are own greed, pride and hate which the Buddhas also say that these 3 states of mind is what keeps us trapped in our own mental suffering. They are the three poisons at the centre of the Bhavachakra / The Wheel of Life.  Greed, pride and hate is rife on here. 99% of peoples vibrations on here is venting these poisonous states of mind spread...