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

Thank you guys!

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 Thank you guys for all the support over the past week and all your donations and contributions, it means the world to me! I took a bit of a wobbler last week and things got a bit on top of me worrying about my financial situation. But out of a muddy pond blooms a lotus flower. Its always when your backed into a corner the best comes out in you. My apologies if it felt like I was putting pressure on my long time supporters asking for donations all the time. It really is not my style at all. It didnt sit well with me either having to ask for it all the time. Now I've went back to doing what I do best which is wheeling and dealing my quality mattresses which I've been selling for over 20 years. I need to put my passion back into this for a bit to get me back on my feet and to pay for and fund my phantom planting mission in creating urban orchards all over Belfast and beyond. I remember this lady came to my showroom once and she was looking a mattress, she noticed I had some apple
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Buddha Beds!!!

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 Good morning guys, most of you have probably seen my disheartened post the other day about me feeling a bit down on the financial side of things to do with the Phantom Planter. I've been trying for so long now to earn a decent living from it to help fuel my passion in what I'm doing. There's nothing more I'd love to be doing than going round phantom planting fruit trees and maintaining them, getting my free fruit tree map app all updated and promoting it also so everyone can have free fresh fruit. I also have plans for my Oak Grove museum and several other community and nature projects I had on my mind. But for the past while I've been spending hours every day doing all sorts of work to do with the phantom planter and It's always been in the back of my head at times, what am I doing?? As most of you know I've been donated a small plot of land and I'm intending on building a cabin on it and I need money to do this. I'm living in a rotted rented cabin
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At a crossroads!

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 As most of you know for the past while I've been making every effort to try and make a living from the phantom planter and its a been a hard struggle! To be honest with 115k fans I thought I'd of got at least 500 of them a month giving me £3.50 on Patreon. But I haven't even got a fraction of that. I'm making so far £300 a month. Then there's the Onlyfans which I really dont think is me, feels so vain for me, it's like I'm becoming that social media type person that I look at and cringe! I've been getting asked  plant trees for people, come to schools, groups and other types of places like I'm sort of celebrity. But then when I say it's £100-£150 depending where it is or what ai have to do which I dont think is much I never hear back from them. Strange isn't it? Some people must think because you come on here preaching love and compassion that I'm just going to run around doing all this for free. Then I've been getting people donatin
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Crops not shops!

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 We need our city covered in Urban Orchards and allotments growing all our own organic foods.  Our kids need this and we need this!  Our health and mental well being has never been worse!  There's never been a time in history where we have forced so much rubbish in our bodies. That we are weak, our bodies are being poisoned. When was it ever normalized to drink gas, eat chemicals, to be fed drug tablets galore, eat 3D printed food? When have we ever smoked 30 figs a day, or all day vaporizing god knows what!  Drink 10 bottles of illuminous coloured stuff, Eat choclate bars the size of bricks! When have we ever sat so long in the one place either. The human body is designed to climb better than most other animals and out run nearly every species on earth  . And these days if a kid cant sit in a chair all day we give them a label and fill them with pills.  What have we let happen!!! Much of the stuff thats sold to us if we give to our pets we'd be locked up. Why is it ok to feed
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The start of my tree planting journey!

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 This is a pic from about 8 years ago when I first started my tree planting journey. I brought a pear tree down to Jampa Ling Buddhist centre and planted it with the Rinpoche there who is a Tibetan Lama. It was on the summer solstice also we planted this. The tree is still going strong today! I had setup a fruit tree planting chairty back then and before I launched the charity I wanted to plant a tree with a Buddhist monk for good luck.  Turns out it was not meant to be though. The charity did my head in. Dealing with councils is not an easy thing, meetings to talk about having meetings and then the street collections we did, I didnt like any of it. With my colourful background it didnt look good. One guy that knows me said "Aye - Al Capone had charities"! My charity was not a front though to take the look off some underworld business I had. Although it may have looked that way as back then my delboy dad was still alive and I was surrounded by gangsters daily. But honestly I
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Its begining to branch out!!

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 So excited about the phantom planters tree map. All the trees I've ever planted will be going onto this map. There is around 140 fruit trees on there so far which you can all go and see if you follow the phantom mask on the map. If you click on the mask it'll give you the type of fruit and with the ones that I can remember the variety it will tell you when to pick them. For the past 9/10 years now I've been just planting and chanting away at my leisure and to see them all being put on a map like this is the best feeling ever! It will be interesting to see how many I will have on the map when I get them all logged. Its also opening my mind up to a world of new possibilities when I see the masks dotted all over the country on a map. Who knows where this is all going to branch out too! Funny how life takes turns, we are born into a society that sells us the biggest load of soul destroying nonsense all at the destruction of mother nature and most of us fall for it. Toys and ti
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Rain Rain go to Spain!

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 This time 2 years ago we were in a heatwave and it just started to rain.  I had many newly planted trees that needed water and was so excited for some rain that when it came I was out dancing in it! This year though it hasn't stopped raining!  We need to stop taking away trees. Mature oak trees are said to drink around 350 litres of water a day.  I never understand when they cut down mature trees that are hundreds of years old but then say sure we're planting a hundred more to make up for it.  Something's not computing there. The Lunatics are running the asylum.  " The systen cannot be fixed be fixed by the system"  Tom Morello. We all need to do our bit for the environment and planting trees is something we can all do and consume less also. Would be great if we all got together and did weekly 24 hour fast.  Consuming is the problem, while we are all consuming and not giving back we are all just as bad as eachother. "Spent way too much on self gratification
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