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

For all the new followers.

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 A bit about me and how I became the phantom planter for all the new followers. I grew up in a Loyalist housing estate in Belfast, my father a Protestant and my mother was a Catholic from Ardyone, that had big complications here in Northern Ireland but I always knew I was a mongrel, a bit different! My dad was a delboy ( a buyer and seller of everything and anything) and from I could walk he had me a mini Delboy. From selling round the doors to off loading container loads cigs and booze straight in from Andorra. I was his runner from ever I can remember. He was one cunning man, anytime the police used to raid the house I was always part of the escape plan with the books and cash. He always said to me if the police ever come they will go to the shed and he will start shouting and wrestle one of the police. All the rest of the police will run to the shed to see whats going on and you lift that bag and run round to his mates house. Several time I had to do this and every time it worke...
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I challenge you to phantom plant a tree!

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 Over 10k new followers in the past few days. Welcome to my page guys. I'm getting a lot more messages than usual due to this rise in support, my apologies for not getting back to you. I dont really get back to many messages to be honest. I dont have the time. This page is more a blog for me were I'm just sharing my authentic thoughts and phantom plantings. I'm not looking to link up with anyone, or here to seek fame or celebrity status. I've did the whole movie making and media stuff years ago when I first setup and it really took me out of my comfort zone. I like my life, I like the people that are in it and I like the things I do. And with all the thousands of fruit trees I've phantom planted over over the years, I really dont have time for much else. 6 years now I have been sharing my phantom plantings on here. Been phantom planting for around 11 years, but only came up with The Phantom Planter just over 6 years ago. My mission is to get you to plant trees. I be...
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Rise of the Paramili-Trees

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My main phantom planters facebook page has grown by 8k followers in a few days and by 3k followers from yesterday. Not sure whats going on, my page seemed to have stopped at 120k followers for around a year and now its just went boom! Facebook must have taken a liken to me again. Its so good to see as the more of us out phantom planting trees the better our world will be and the better we will be too. For me I think its so important we all plant trees and connect to nature as individuals. It was phantom planting an apple tree around 11 years ago by the side of the road in Belfast that changed the way I think about life. When I planted this tree I was in the depths of darkness. Things couldn't have been any worse for me back then. But me and a mate thought we would plant some apple trees in our local areas just for a bit of fun. We had no idea what we were doing, never planted a tree in our lives before. All we knew was to plant it the right way up and water it.  This one tree reall...
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206 apple trees planted.

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 Thats 206 heritage Irish apple trees phantom planted so far in the past month. Over 200 more to go. Most of which will be planted at our Lisnabreeny community orchard where everyone can go and enjoy. For over 10 years now I've been randomly phantom planting fruit everywhere I normally go. A green patch here or a layby there. I eye up the spots and fill them up with fruit trees. It was around 7 years ago when I really started to up my phantom plantings. I managed to escape the alcohol trap and had so much extra time and money on my hands from not hanging around bars drinking all the time. So I decided to use that time and money to buy trees and phantom plant them. It was an antidote for me, in Buddhism they talk a lot about antidotes. The antidote idea sat so well with me. As when I tried to give up drink or types of drugs in the past it was slowly being replaced with some other type of unhealthy desire. Give up drinking, all of a sudden you start to smoke more weed. Give up the co...
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Stay warm, plant trees!

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 Your not long getting warmed up tree planting in the cold. Love it being part of creation. It expands the mind planting trees. I visualise into the future how everything is going to grow and provide for nature and community. Visualisations are such an important practice in Tibetan Buddhism. For years all I was visualising was my next drink, drug or self gratifying fix. And guess what? Thats what manifested in my life. We are all becoming our thoughts whether we like it or not. Be careful what you get caught into thinking about as thats whats going to manifest. I've manifested people and things into my life with mind blowing accuracy. Some things I wanted and some things I didnt. These days I try my best to keep my thoughts pure for the benefit of nature. Most days I wake I say my Buddhist prayers for trees and sentient beings. "May the attractive and healthy forests be increased in all the one hundred directions, may sentient creatures be freed from untimely death and live ha...
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Happy new year!

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 Happy new year everyone. Hope you all plant some trees in 2026. Planted 30 more apple trees yesterday at the Lisnabreeny community orchard. Did these 30 solo in 2 hours. Love the workout you get from doing this. Its a great back pump digging holes and up and down squatting all the time is so good for you too. Then being out in the fresh air giving back to nature just enriches you in so many ways.  Definitely a different type of high on News years Eve! That brings the total to 192 apple trees I've planted in the past month. My big right hand man has been measuring out the rest of the field to see how many more apple trees we can fit. Its works out roughly we can fit 450 apple trees. So far there is around 330 planted, so thats another 120 to go, which I will have these in in no time! I was just saying to my mate yesterday that in 50 years time people from Belfast will be coming up to this community orchard and filling boxes with apples and taking them back down to share out ar...
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81 apple trees completed

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 Added bamboo canes and trees guards yesterday to all the 81 apple trees we phantom planted in the estate over the past few days. Luckily when I got down yesterday no more trees had been broken. Only 2 so far had been snapped with possible dogs running over the trees as they are so small.  They were hard to see to be honest without the tree guards on them. Hope now the dogs will see them better and also they will be able to take a bit of a hit now with the canes and guards acting as an extra strengthener for them. This is going to be an amazing little wild orchard when this all gets established. Such a mix of heritage Irish trees phantom planted here. Cant wait to watch this all grow over the coming years. The community really loves the idea of fruit trees being planted around the place. Everyone stops to say how much they love it. So many dont know also how many different types of native apple trees we have. It's my life ambition to fill our local estate and beyond with all t...
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