186 apple trees planted!

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 186 apple trees we've planted so far in our new Lisnabreeny community orchard.


As most of you know it was us that grafted and grew all these apple trees, searching out all the old native Irish variety apples from all over the Emerald Isle.


We have approximately another 100 or so apple trees to be planted in the orchard, this last batch of trees are not the best though.

There is a real art to this grafting stuff and these 100 or so trees was when we just started out learning and practicing grafting.


It took around 100 tries to get the hang of it for me.

The 186 we have already planted couldn't be done any better, practice makes perfect!


You know we can become anything we want, it all depends where we are directing our thoughts and energy.


I spent about 15 years of my life drinking, smoking and taking drugs daily! 

I ended up a professional at all this, took years of practice to drink 15 pints and smoke 30 cigs and never mind all the stuff I was shoving up my nose!


I think about this all the time, everyone is getting good at what you are doing, whatever that may be. 

What ever you are applying your time and energy too, you are becoming a master at it. 

Be mindful of the outcome of where you are directing your energy. We are all becoming our thoughts and actions.


Anyhow, 20 years ago if someone said to me I would be running around trying to save old native Irish apple varieties and creating community orchards for everyone to have free food and connection back to mother nature, I would have laughed at them!


Drinking Piña coladas sniffing peas and barley on Waikiki beach with a load of sexy ladies around me is what I had planned.


Not anymore though, waking up next to wee betty in my cabin and heading out to plant trees for the day is way better than the soul trap temptations of the world. Its all finely tuned. 

As the Buddha says, we are like spiders caught in our own web.


What we borrow in passing pleasure, we return with pain and suffering.


Have a great day guys and maybe head out and plant a tree today. 


Peace and love...


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