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

Well water every day!

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 One year ago today I started to make drinking well water every day part of my life. I use for drinking and making my teas and coffees. No other water have I been drinking. I have been using a couple of different wells but this one is by far the tastiest. The Bolin Well its called and is named this because where it springs out of its source it bubbles so it looks its boiling. This water comes straight out of Slieve Croob mountain, the source of the River Lagan, which is the main river that runs through Belfast. For me its all about implementing these small healthy changes into your life over a matter of years. I get my water from the source, I get my milk from the source, get my eggs and butter from source and when I can afford it I get my culled venison from its source too. At the weekend there I made venison and juniper stew. Probably one of the most ancient recipes of this land. It was amazing! You know students in Scotland have now been encouraged to eat venison as they cull an...
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One of my best plantings yet!

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 So yesterday me and my son went and planted a plum tree in the house where my wee mum grew up in Ardoyne, North Belfast. I did a post a few years ago when I first found out where it was my mum grew up. When my cousin told me the address I had to drive by for a look. As I pulled up at the house I couldn't believe what I was seeing! Soon as I pulled up and seen all the Buddhas in the garden and then apple trees I had to get out and call in. This was a quantum entangled moment right here! A lovely lady welcomed me in and I told her my mum grew up in this house. She did not know of my mum but she was more than happy to let me have look around. I told her that I was a big apple tree planter and a practising Buddhist and I just cant believe what is going on in what was once my mums garden! I said I would love to come up and plant a tree in your garden in memory of my wee mum. The lady said its her husband who takes to do with the garden and you'll need to see him. I called back agai...
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200 willow trees planted!

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 Me and my big Druid right hand man went yesterday and took around 200 willow cuttings from in the forest and planted them all around the wet parts of our Lisnabreeny community orchard. Over the coming years the willow which loves wet ground will dry the place up, making it more suitable for other trees to grow too. Its so easy to get yourself some free trees this time of year, all you do with these willow cuttings is push them straight into the ground and they will grow into trees. This works with Elder, Dogwood and many other varieties. Doing these willow cuttings has been a great thing for us to revert too as it can be done in really wet weather. We still have around 100 apple trees to plant but no way could we be digging holes in waterlogged fields. The willow cuttings push into the ground even easier when the field is wet and also it lets us see where all the puddles are forming so we know what parts of the fields needs the willow more. Always makes me think how much we need t...
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How to get free trees!

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 Check out these self rooted apple trees after one year. These are Lough Key Crab apple trees that are one of the few self rooting Irish apple varieties. Cant believe the root system after one year! All you do is cut a branch of the tree when dormant and push into the ground, no holes to be dug, just force the branch into the ground and in one year you'll have a self sufficient apple tree. This method works with so many other tree varieties, willow, dogwood and elder are just some of them. We are heading out today to get more willow and dogwood cuttings to plant up around the wet spots at our Lisnabreeny Community Orchard. If you have any damp parts in your garden why not do the same, this will soak up all the water over the coming years and bring some life to your garden. This is a great way to get free trees guys and now is the perfect time of year to be doing it when everything is dormant. Come Spring you'll be in for a nice surprise when your trees come to life. The first t...
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5 years ago today!

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 This day 5 years ago I walked into the shop and there was me all over the news stand!  5 years on and I'm still planting and chanting and challenging you to phantom plant a tree!  Rise of the Paramili-Trees  UTPP up the phantom planters
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My first phantom planted apple tree!

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 Was down yesterday visiting one of the first apple trees I ever phantom planted around 11 years ago. Check out the size of this beauty growing away like a champion by the side of the road in Belfast. Every year from I planted this it has never failed to give an abundance of tasty apples. This was also my first ever phantom planted tree that I could climb and do pullups on. For years I always said that I cant wait for the day that I can climb and train on a tree that I've phantom planted! This is a discovery apple variety and it has really thrived from day 1. It was a potted tree planted in the middle of the summer. At the time of planting a national trust worker said that the tree would not survive as its the wrong time of year to be planting. Something wasn't computing with me then and I didnt believe him, even though he looked and sounded like Mr Green fingers, my gut was telling me different.  I couldn't see how it wouldn't survive if I was going to go back to water...
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Rain rain go to Spain!

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 Literally hasn't stopped raining here in the past couple of days and today we are expected to get half a months rainfall in one day, its causing my phantom planting production line to come to a halt Yesterday I think I was suffering from cabin fever looking out my window at the pouring rain saying to myself will you just go away till I get out planting trees. Planting trees in really wet weather is not a good idea. I've tried before and it was really messy. Think more of the soil ended up on my boot than back in the planting hole. So I have reverted to try and make some money by promoting my day job which is flogging high end luxury mattresses. If you live anywhere in Ireland and need a mattress delivered drop me a message. Google Buddha Beds and see my stuff. If you live Belfast and surrounding areas it will be me and wee betty doing the delivering. I have a showroom just outside South Belfast also and its viewing appointment day or night to see my stock. I've been sellin...
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