200 apple trees for phantom planting

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 Check out my heritage apple trees!


200 grafts I did a few months ago and only 3 of them didnt make it. Not bad results at all. 


Every year thats all I want to be doing from now on is grafting 200 Heritage Irish apple trees and phantom plant them at my leisure around Belfast. 


I wont be taking on anymore major plantations like our Lisnabreeny Community Orchard or the oak spiral again. Trying to raise money for projects like this is a head melt. 

600 apple trees I grew for the Lisnabreeny site, which would cost in and around £12K minimum if you were to buy these and I think I managed to raise about £2k of that. Most of this project has been funded and paid for by my own money and time. No way would I want to be depending on donations again. It really put me under pressure and took the fun out of it for me. 


I also dont have the same desire or motivation to be posting on here all the time. I will however always be out planting and chanting, its just what I do. 

I just cant be bothered sharing every last thing on here. Takes me away from connecting to the present moment. 

I've been going through a much deeper level of self analysis these days.  

I just want to live more meditatively and sharing every last thing on here for praise, attention and ego polishing is far from meditative. We all have egos. The whole world is living in total ego. One day I want to do what the Buddha did and just sit under a tree and not move. For me this would be the total dissolving of the ego. The ego cant play, cant scream for attention, cant pleasure itself. Cant be the best. There is no bravado for the ego. 

We are all the biggest bunch of childish show offs really. Even spirituality these days has become an ego thing. Look at me, look what I can do!

There is no permanent safe refuge in any worldly stuff. Suffering is coming to us all. Its only a matter of time. The Buddha for me has the medicine to this disease of life we all have to endure. 


I challenge you to phantom plant a tree 


Peace and love 


The Phantom Planter and Wee Betty


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