A<\/span> week after California\u2019s cannabis harvest ended in disaster for many, as fires swept through Sonoma and Mendocino counties, one of the first and most famous cultivators impacted by the fires is back on the wagon to help raise funds for his peers.<\/p>\n Last Monday, as word of 17 large fires roaring through the night<\/a> reached the hazy morning sky, news surfaced on social media platforms that Subcool, a breeder with TGA Genetics<\/a>, was one of the first confirmed to lose everything to the fast-moving flames.<\/p>\n We reached out to Subcool yesterday to get his take on relief efforts at ground zero<\/a> in Sonoma County and the outpouring of support so far.<\/p>\n \u201cWe raised $15,000 on Friday and Saturday night,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat we\u2019ve done is take a little bit of stuff from here and did an auction, then my show \u2018The Weed Nerd\u2019 has been raising money.\u201d<\/p>\n This is what 20 pounds of cannabis looks like after a fire runs to the charity garden \u00a0@badgertga @mendodope\u00a0 #thescienceofdank #theartofcannabis\u00a0 @renegadeart\u00a0 @boewallace\u00a0 #weednerdarmy\u00a0 #winecountry #cannabisculture #overgrow @\u00a0 @galacticgardens_tga @a.nverysid #weednerdliveshow\u00a0 @hightimesmagazine @weedworldmag @urb_man_\u00a0 #itsmendodope\u00a0 @zazzys_co\u00a0\u00a0#subcool #tgagenetics #theweednerds\/ @mzjillgrower @tga_will #weednerdnation #teaching #supersoil #breeding #calilife #ridingnerdy<\/a><\/p>\n\n Subcool said that much of the charity he\u2019s seen so far has come through his Weed Nerd social media channels. The funds will be given to Patrick King of The Soil King Garden Center<\/a> in Cloverdale, just north of Santa Rosa. According to Subcool, the money is going through a direct action fund for those impacted, thereby avoiding the red tape of larger nonprofit efforts.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat we do with the money is give it to Patrick, the Soil King, and he\u2019s on the ground,\u201d Subcool said. \u201cWhat this allows us to do \u2014 instead of bothering with forms, the Red Cross and bureaucracy \u2014 is if you need a generator, you drive to the Soil King and say \u2018Pat, I need a generator.\u2019 Then you can go to Home Depot and you buy it.\u201d<\/p>\n Subcool believes this approach makes it a grassroots effort, which he told Cannabis Now while he was driving to The Soil King to get a blood infusion for a medical condition. \u201cSo he\u2019s providing me a bed and a place to get my medication because everything is burnt down, and then we\u2019re going to continue on raising money for food, supplies and water to get to the growers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Besides the direct action fund he\u2019s set up, Subcool has also seen many people start GoFundMe campaigns on his behalf<\/a>. \u201cPeople are raising money for me all over the place,\u201d said Subcool. \u201cAny money given to me will be going to Pat, I won\u2019t be taking any of the money. I\u2019ll take a hat pin or a hoodie, things from the culture I can\u2019t buy, but I will not take money when other people have such a need.\u201d<\/p>\n SubCool is safe\u2026\u2026 @theweednerd420<\/a><\/p>\n\n Subcool also vented his frustrations with the way the cannabis community has been mistreated compared to other agricultural commodities in the wake of the flames, as he was not allowed to return to the property and see the damage first hand until today \u2014 while other farmers have already been able to access the area. \u201cI\u2019m going up tomorrow with my lawyer and a team of people,\u201d said Subcool, while noting he was sick of authorities not even letting him look through the debris.<\/p>\n \u201cNobody really knows anything so we\u2019re using the internet and Instagram as a platform,\u201d said Subcool, while noting he\u2019s been broadcasting live much of the time over the last week on his Instagram page @TheWeedNerd420<\/a>.<\/p>\n So far, some of the GoFundMe pages supporting Subcool and others have remained unscathed but the same cannot be said for all crowdsourcing relief funds. On Monday evening, the California Growers Association announced the donations made to their wildfire relief fund had been reversed for being cannabis-related. They acted quickly overnight to set up a new fund here<\/a>; we\u2019ll have full coverage of the cannabis crowdsourcing takedown tomorrow.<\/p>\n TELL US,<\/strong> what will you do to benefit the people impacted by the NorCal fires?<\/p>\n The post Breeder Subcool Donates To Cannabis Community Fire Victims<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
The breeder behind TGA Genetics and \u201cThe Weed Nerd\u201d lost everything in the Sonoma fires \u2014 and now he\u2019s trying to give everything back. A week after California\u2019s cannabis harvest ended in disaster for many, as fires swept through Sonoma and Mendocino counties, one of the first and most famousContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50,99,2032,1961],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20285,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20284\/revisions\/20285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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