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

Mindful training.

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 When I was a kid the guy that owned the gym I went too was in amazing shape. He was an old man to me back then. Probably the same age as me now!! But I used to always watch and admire him, his training was super slow with light enough weights.   Back then all I wanted to do was lift the biggest weight I could for as many reps as I could.  Training this way messed with my body over years. Shoulder injuries, back problems and generally not enjoying the gym, as most of the time I was trying to be better than my last session putting my head away.  The ego is never happy.  Where does it end?  It ends when something goes pop and you become a has been. So many of them out there. These days I bring meditation into training. Breath and focus on every rep. Put as much isometric resistance on the targeted muscle group as possible. You gotta feel the burn, every rep squeeze and pause.  Don't get caught up with how heavy your lifting or the numbers game eithe...
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My new home!

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 My new home is getting delivered today! Can't believe it!  Thank you to everyone thats helped me buy this. It's been a long time coming for me.  My girlfriend thinks I've been living in penance for the past 7 years. Not anymore after today!  Now with my living conditions sorted I can do what I do best -  Phantom Plant trees and challenge you also to become a phantom planter!  Nature will never be healed by the ones at the top. It will be healed by us the community, the grassroots of the world.  https://paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=FAJZHB3TBXMSL
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Apples are growing!

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 Check out the apples on this phantom planted tree.  We have around 20 fruit trees at this part of the hood and they are all looking amazing.  Streets and estates are perfect for orchards. They are naturally sheltered making them like walled gardens.  Get phantom planting today. I challenge you!  Peace and love  The Phantom Planter
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A day watering trees.

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  Was out and about watering trees from 6am yesterday morning. Didnt get finished up until about 6pm last night. Was watering on and off constantly all day in between wheeling and dealing my Buddha Beds Luxury mattresses. I have trees all over South Belfast and have been going around watering the trees thats been planted in the past year or 2. There is no rain forecast for another week at least and with the weather being so hot its time to keep on top of things and help the trees thrive. Its also good to go around and check on the trees too. Sure what else would you want to be doing on a nice hot sunny day. Spent a few hours late afternoon in our new Lisnabreeny Community Orchard, tops off, barefooted tending to the trees. I was in the heavenly realm, just me, wee betty and the trees. I also love to make watering the trees a workout too. Many people say I should get a trolley or a hose or something to make it easier, not for me. I love the pump it gives me carrying 2 x 25 litre dru...
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The trees need you!

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 Just out here watering trees. If anyone has trees planted for them at any of our orchards feel free to bring them some water. They could be doing with it.  Use away at this water tub at the Lisnabreeny community orchard. Bring along some bottles and fill them up.  Have a jump in after if your too warm!  This time of year the newly planted trees need your help.
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Keep on the right side with mother nature.

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 I get up at 5am every morning, do some stretching, meditation, prayers and chanting. In this hot weather we're getting I give my morning ritual a miss and go and water trees. For me going and helping my trees survive this dry weather for the benefit of nature and the community is just as good as any spiritual practice if not more important.  It covers so much of the Buddhist Eightfold path - Right effort, right intention, right livelihood and probably a few more. For the past while I keep getting these realisations that we are made up of the elements of mother nature. We have come from the earth with the spirit of life flowing through us. Soon mother nature will take us back. Our bodies are only on loan from her. In this this space of time that we are given it just makes perfect sense to me that we should serve this creation selflessly. We are supposed to use this body for helping the creation. One day we are all going back to the earth. Keep your relationship with mother nat...
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Some phantom planter tips.

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 You can plant potted fruit trees anytime of year. Just always make sure you water them a couple of times a week in warm weather. 5 litres each time is plenty.  Me and wee betty have planted 100s of potted fruit trees during the summer with a 90% success rate.  Off out here today to water loads of trees. Love it though carrying 2 x 25 litre drums of water. No need for the gym today. Carrying these is the same as the famers walk gym workout.  An all over body pump with a purpose.  My daily prayers.  Father of creation, mother of nature, I'm truly grateful for the body you have given me, may I nourish, respect it and always look after it, so I can be the best I can be and benefit this world and everything in it.  Om mani padme hum Om mani padme hum. Om mani padme hum May the attractive and healthy forests be increased in all the one hundred directions  May sentient creatures be freed from untimely death and live happy lives.  Om mani padme hum...
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