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Giving Back: Official Shroomery Small Change for BIG CHANGE swap! *$25,545 = 100,000+ trees!* 21
#28061108 - 11/20/22 04:04 AM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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Shroomerites the world over!
Here I'm sitting under a Shroomery blanket, mid november, trying to hold off heating my house for a bit longer. Times have been perilous lately for many, and for some more than others. And, of course, for some much much more than others, we cannot even imagine.
Remember those 32,000 fruit trees we planted last year, for the good of the planet, mother nature, and many of those people facing much more dire times than most of us? Those trees will feed tens of thousands of people for generations to come.
Maybe we should do it again, in fact, yes! let's by all means do it again, put together some quarters we can spare and plant fruit trees for $0.25 each in..
The Second Official Shroomery Donation Drive! 
We're talking Trees for the Future and their Forest Garden Program
We are people of the earth, and we can't have mushrooms without biodiverse forests and greener pastures.
The Forest Garden Program is a simple, replicable, and scalable approach with proven success. How? It starts with trees. Through their 4-year training program, called the Forest Garden Approach, farmers plant thousands of trees that protect and bring nutrients back to the soil. This helps farmers grow a variety of fruits and vegetables, increases their income and access to food (even in the first year!), all while improving the environment.
Many charities are all talk and no skittles, but Trees.org has been nominated by several orgs are one of the best charities for reforestation in 2022, since 2014 they have over 278 million trees planted and they are well on their way to have over 1 BILLION trees planted before 2030.
Leaf through their 2022 Impact Report to see the fantastic things they accomplish!
The gist:
Biodiverse Permaculture Agroforestry is the name of this gamechanger!

Nature benefits! People benefit! The position of women in their societies and the future of their children benefits, the good earth benefits from the right approach to the problems we all face. Check their extensive FAQ.
Sweet - how can we help?
Folks: For roughly every $0.25 donated, Trees.org can plant a tree, including a program of education and stewardship which yields considerably more than that tree alone!
We, the Shroomery, should be able to put a significant number of trees in the ground. This is why we go sitewide, all the Shroomerites of the world for Kenya, Mali, Senegal, Uganda, Tanzania, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad and Gambia. Driving the Sahara desert back, driving climate change back, making the most of the future, not just over there where people have it hardest, but all over the world; a greener and better future for the earth and for mankind, and this towards the end of this fateful year.
Thousands of trees, binding the soil, fruits, cuttings, seeds!
Lets see how many we can plant before December 15!
Let's give it our best in those 3 weeks!
And if that isn't enough, the Shroomery is going to match donations up to $500, every donation of $50 receives a year's supporter account, and a donation of $100+ a $30 Swag.Haus discount!!
Please make your donations on our trees.org action page, if you wish to partake in the giveaways please take a screenshot of your donation receipts and PM them to Geokills or email them to mike@shroomery.org
Quite unexpectedly, a longterm Shroomery member who wishes to stay anonymous came forward with the incredibly generous offer to match donations up to $10,000 - and he put words into action by donating $2,500 on the spot, which kicks off this campaign with a giant leap forward!
How many more trees can we plant than the ones already standing?
Dear beloved Shroomery, let's help people take back the land, restoring loose sand into solid biodiversity, affecting change for decades and in fact generations and centuries to come.
Trees are planted, a lasting mark is made on the people and their environment, don't underestimate it.
25 cents is all it takes to put a tree in the ground with your name on it. What do we get for 25 cents? Not much these days GI 
Give back to Nature AND people AND make 2022 a better year!
Join us at the Team Shroomery page @ Trees.org to see the count, progress and add to it, one 25 cent tree at a time!
Our action page from last year is still active, so let us drop our contributions there and drive up further the sum of what we've raised! Every single cent helps when its $0.25 a tree, skip a Starbucks, plant 20 trees. Whether you give or not, can or can't, will or won't, we're a fantastic bunch of people and will take that awesomeness into the new year on the horizon.
What better way to end this post than to link you to Trees for the Future for a closer look AND hit you with their production quality mini documentary about their approach and how it works out.
Shroomerites, Let's Make This Grand!
We've got until December 15.
Edited by Asante (12/15/22 09:47 PM)
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Re: Giving Back: Official Shroomery Small Change for BIG CHANGE swap! [Re: geokills] 7
#28294791 - 04/25/23 01:18 PM (8 months, 29 days ago) |
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Wanted to drop a quick post of gratitude here, as I noticed that just four days ago, an anonymous donor contributed $3,000 to our team page at Trees.org! 
Thank you! 
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Re: Giving Back: Official Shroomery Small Change for BIG CHANGE swap! [Re: geokills] 6
#28099607 - 12/15/22 08:51 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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SHROOMERITES WE HAVE SUCCEEDED!!
The admin team, we had our doubts this year. The world is in trouble and much of it is economic. Charities worldwide have strong declines. We are the Shroomery, most of us have trees to smoke.
A tree for a quarter, four trees to a dollar. Four fruit trees is pretty much 500-1000 fruits a year. We decided to give the Shroomery s chance, not decide for you. Every cent is a fruit basket a year.
There have been shockingly generous donations, most especially from one member and his family, and to their great honor even anonymously. right from the start.
We are planters. planters of mushrooms and of trees. We are the worlds biggest mushroom tribe. we are the top treeplanting team three times over. Let that sink in.
$25,540 in 2022
$5555 in 2021
$31,100 TOTAL
as the crow flies:
125,000 fruit trees. 12.5 million coconuts a year 25 million bananas a year 50 million citrus fruits a year
we partially feed a million people
how do you like them apples?
Shroomery.org partially feeds a million people
we planted 125,000 trees sequestering 6 kilotons of CO2
SIX KILOTONS 
in the meme time..



I salute Established Titles for doubling up our Giving Tuesday donations. Class, Your Lordships!
But that one anonymous Shroomerite and his family.
Words cannot express my and our gratitude.
Our gratitude cannot express what you did for so many people in Africa and the environment, for generations to come. Diseased infants lives will be saved with a paste of peanut and banana grown in your forest gardens. Your family and you will end up saving more lives than Oskar Schindler did.
Shroomery, i am so very proud of all of you, those who participated actively, but also every single troll on this site who took a step back to let this freedom train pass through.
This was our comunity keeping it right as she goes.
WE PARTIALLY FEED A MILLION PEOPLE
Put that in your christmas stocking this holiday season!
Likr Geokills said, you can always donate through our action page, year round. What i do, i autodonate $7.25 every month through our page. Why that goofy number? it means i plant one fruit tree every day of my life. If i may suggest, automatically donate $1 monthly through our action page, that sounds like its nothing but its still just about a tree per week and 50 trees in of itself are a little family orchard. the link Trees in my signature links right to our action page
enough talk of that!
thank you all for participating, may God savagely bless you, we love you!
25 years Shroomery, $25K donated
I love the glory years of old but this here is one of our finest hours.


Join us at the Team Shroomery page @ Trees.org to see the count, progress and add to it, one 25 cent tree at a time!
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Re: Giving Back: Official Shroomery Small Change for BIG CHANGE swap! [Re: geokills] 6
#28294918 - 04/25/23 03:02 PM (8 months, 29 days ago) |
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Not only that! I notice it was given during an Earth Day event, where all contributions up to $50,000 were matched by Displate. So it wasn't just a very generous donation from our awesome community, it had twice the impact as well!
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Re: Giving Back: Official Shroomery Small Change for BIG CHANGE swap! [Re: ScoutingEagle] 5
#28063773 - 11/21/22 06:31 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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If you have money for agar then you got money for trees!
I just tossed in USD $66.66
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Re: Giving Back: Official Shroomery Small Change for BIG CHANGE swap! [Re: Rusty2096] 5
#28066476 - 11/23/22 07:04 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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I'll tell you guys what: i'm going to be a shroom.
You took a leap of faith, and shrooms reward that, You redonated in full possibility it got you nowhere.
Special exception: your re-donating gets you re-warded with a years supporter account, and for another person, if Murderlabz is so willing, his offer extends that their donation tags onto ML's - also a leap of faith -so that the next $25 donation that ML approves, gets hooked up with a one year deluxe supporter account, higher value than the $25 because Murderlabs paved the way.
We cannot make it a free for all but both of you go out of your way in excellence here, and that means extra credit!
onward!
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Re: Giving Back: Official Shroomery Small Change for BIG CHANGE swap! [Re: Asante] 5
#28086831 - 12/06/22 11:48 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Pitched in 69 loonies because it felt right
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Re: Giving Back: Official Shroomery Small Change for BIG CHANGE swap! [Re: Asante] 5
#28090815 - 12/09/22 07:09 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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So it looks like this is almost over as it's not a sticky anymore I assume there hasn't been any donations in a little while.
That said, this won't be over until I said this:
ASANTE, THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMITMENT. THANK YOU FOR CARING, THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS POSSIBLE (AT LEAST BE A PART OF THE PEOPLE WHO MADE IT POSSIBLE) AND THANK YOU FOR HAVING HANDLE THE THREAD THE WAY YOU DID, WITH ALL THAT PASSION.
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Edited by Rusty2096 (12/10/22 03:32 PM)
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Re: Giving Back: Official Shroomery Small Change for BIG CHANGE swap! [Re: Rusty2096] 5
#28092226 - 12/10/22 05:39 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Just found this thread for the 1st time (slow learner) and had no choice but to throw $50 plus processing fees toward the cause. vive les arbres!
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Re: Giving Back: Official Shroomery Small Change for BIG CHANGE swap! [Re: Asante] 4
#28061436 - 11/20/22 10:17 AM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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This year hasn't been easy on me, so I can't give much, but I can eat.
Some of these people can't.
I encourage anyone who can scrape a little something to do so. Let's try and make the world a better place for em'.
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Re: Giving Back: Official Shroomery Small Change for BIG CHANGE swap! [Re: gopher] 4
#28061590 - 11/20/22 11:56 AM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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Rusty2096 said: we already over 8k....
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gopher said: Thats from last time, we need $500 from this time
not just from last time.. we had our score of last time, and the amazingly generous Shroomerite who will match up to 10K already donates $2500, in unprecedented generosity that will have lasting consequences in a place where it matters most.
Rusty and Jay, you two too thanks a metric kiloton, and i say kiloton because last years trees will sequester a kiloton of CO2, turning it into fruits, nuts, all good things trees have to offer!

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Trees for the Future says:
Where we work
Trees for the Future (TREES) is currently working with thousands of farming families across nine countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Over our 30+ year history, we’ve worked around the globe. In 2014, we focused our work in select African countries, where the climatic and economic challenges were most pressing and we could make the greatest impact.
Decades of unsustainable agriculture practices have resulted in degraded and unproductive land; nutrient-scarce food systems; and farming families who are unable to grow and sell enough to meet their most basic needs. Using the Forest Garden Approach in semi-arid countries like Senegal, we’ve proven that agroforestry is a solution to each of these challenges, effectively ending hunger and poverty while restoring the land and environment.
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Re: Giving Back: Official Shroomery Small Change for BIG CHANGE swap! [Re: Asante] 4
#28064649 - 11/22/22 11:59 AM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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Asante said:
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if you wish to partake in the giveaways please take a screenshot of your donation receipts and PM them to Geokills or email them to mike@shroomery.org
If you contacted Geokills, i'm sure he'll do so at his soonest convenience.
Just a quick note that I am away from my desk for the week, visiting family up in Oregon for Thanksgiving, where there are a right lot of trees indeed! I will begin processing the donation perks when I'm back in the saddle next week, on or after November 28th.
Thanks to all participants for both your generosity and your patience. It's always heartwarming to see members of our community come together to help support others and the Earth we all rely on, even if that support is non-monetary!
Happy Thanksgiving!
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#28066037 - 11/23/22 01:23 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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Re: Giving Back: Official Shroomery Small Change for BIG CHANGE swap! [Re: Grind365] 4
#28074367 - 11/29/22 11:20 AM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Grind365 said: I couldn't afford to give as much this time but I put in another 15 and made sure to cover processing fee. Hope this helps some. 
Edit: post 420 very cool.
Your 15 to 30 to 120 fruit trees.
Imagine having an orchard by hour house with 120 tangerine trees..

blammo: this will yield at least 36,000 tangerines, every year, for decades, and with a bit more care 50,000. In an area with food security issues.
you make an enormous difference! As long as you live people will eat the fruits from your trees and replant the seeds and cuttings! Thank you!
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Re: Giving Back: Official Shroomery Small Change for BIG CHANGE swap! [Re: murderlabz] 4
#28074638 - 11/29/22 02:38 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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The Shroomery's $500 matching pledge for 2022 has been submitted . Many thanks and much gratitude to everyone helping us influence some positive change.
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#28074656 - 11/29/22 02:46 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Extremely impressive generosity from our major anonymous donor. Thank you! 
I raised the team's overall goal from our original $5,000 to $20,000. That leaves only $160 to go. Remarkable that we have been able to raise $19,840 so far, with the bulk of it coming directly from our community members.
Well done Shroomerites! 
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#28084717 - 12/05/22 01:15 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Greetings from Canada, happy to kick some in for the trees!
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Re: Giving Back: Official Shroomery Small Change for BIG CHANGE swap! [Re: Asante] 4
#28092435 - 12/10/22 07:50 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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thank you so much for doing the right thing!
Despite my noob status, I truly appreciate The Shroomery as well as making the world a better place in general. I guess it's one in the same! Thank you for your support--that means a lot to me.
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Re: Giving Back: Official Shroomery Small Change for BIG CHANGE swap! [Re: whatisanerd] 4
#28092923 - 12/11/22 05:54 AM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Any n00b who contributes positively to any community should get the warm welcome they deserve, we were all n00bs once< our founder Ythan was the biggest n00b of all because he was too young to be on his own site 
thats now 25 years ago, a silver jubilee of a solid gold community, and you are very welcome in it.
I only use the word n00b affectionately, as a bit of a friendly tease. my personal belief is that all are one and you are that, so why spread anything but love?
we're good people, buncha druggies paying part of their personal fix forward towards lasting change in this world for the better, for people who average bringing in $2 per day - and thats no exaggeration. $50 is a months pay there.
Many of us consider spirituality woowoo, but most of us submit to that mushroom, that cactus, microdot or jungle concoction that takes us to places greater that our ego can imagine, deep in ourselves.
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Re: Giving Back: Official Shroomery Small Change for BIG CHANGE swap! [Re: Milonaire Mycology] 4
#28095023 - 12/12/22 07:22 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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I just donated $50.
Thanks for making this possible and championing the cause Asante!
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