Our member and friend, BrianM is in need of our help to address a serious medical condition. See https://helphopelive.org/campaign/9430 for details.  I participate in other other groups/forums and there have been several auctions, etc. in at least two other groups for this purpose already with some very generous support.  Others have made direct donations to the campaign.

Several members of our fig community have donated fig trees and paying a high price for a great tree for such a good cause is a win win situation.

Hershell doesn't post here often but has been a very generous contributor to this cause.  His custom grafting knives are a very popular item, manufactured from cobalt steel to produce a knife that will hold an edge very well.  Hershell has indicated he'd like to have an auction here also and asked if I could help introduce this here.  His life knife fetched $400 with matching donations of another $400.  Let's see how we can do here!

Hershell is reporting some technical difficulties in posting for the moment.  Stand by....

How would donating the plants work?  Not that I have anything exotic, but maybe someone other than me would like to know too.

In a fig Facebook group I donated a choice of 1 of 4 highly desirable fig trees and the winner was ambitious, bidding against even himself, and won at $275, making the donation to the fund linked above and I shipped him his tree.  Another member offered up a less rare Ronde de Bordeaux which still fetched $60.  Another tree is currently being offered on a Facebook group and another on Ourfigs forum.  In each case, winner pays their bid to the charity, fairly simple.

I would offer a GM8 White Bajtra but I just air layered it and I can't
promise what I do not have. It will be 6 weeks yet to wait, and no guarantee it will root.
Even then, I can't ship to california until I get my orchard licensed and inspected.
Then I could get the paper work I would need.

Wish I could help, I too was diagnosed with MS so I understand some of what
he is going through.


Doug

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I don't do facebook

Doug, my post has nothing to do with Facebook but that is one method that has been used thus far and I was addressing Cheryl's question with some examples.

Hershell has still been unable to post and I'm awaiting a reply from Jon to see if he will fix that.

Maybe we can do auctions here?

Doug

just trying to figure out how I can help, if at all.

That was my intention, to get others to consider donating things for charitable auctions, bid on them, or just make outright donations.  The ourfigs forum has also started a "lotto" of sorts also at $10 per square and that would be fine also if someone wants to run that.  That has the potential to generate a lot through numerous modest donations.

Do consider that if your employer has a matching gift program you should be able to double what you give (I just filed the paperwork from my employer).  Also, helphopelive donations are tax deductible.

Harvey, thank you for leading the way with these efforts.

I will be forever in debt to Harvey and everyone else. I have been non stop fundraising and am exhausted. I will raise the money and just found out Channel 30 action news well be doing my story. Things are picking up.

See HERE for knife auction

I air layered 3 trees to auction here for Brian, just as soon as they root.
I will have The gm8, Salem dark, and a Yugoslavian Black.
Some states I can not ship to and I only need postage refunded to ship.
Give me 5-6 weeks. It aint much, but I would like to try to help a bit.

Doug