An Email i received off a complete stranger. WOW

Hi Alice,

Hope you don't mind, but I sent this email to some colleagues and friends yesterday:

06/02/2007 12:26 PM
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Help a Farmer helping themselvesHi Guys, As everyone knows our farmers are doing it very hard, with the drought/bushfires. One enterprising young farmer has found an out of the box way to help out her family and farm, she has taken photos of her families farm and stock, and has listed them for sale on Ebay. They're hoping to sell about 300 photos for at least $30 each, to help meet the $15,000 bill they will have coming up soon for stock feed to ensure their cattle and sheep can make it through the next months of drought. I had a look last night and one photo (of an old rusted out dodge ute), was up to $150, a couple are up over $50. She's not a professional photographer, but the photos are pretty good, and really show the differences, in a couple of photos, of what their farm looked like pre drought and how hard the conditions are now. There are some cute photos there of some calves & puppies, and some nice landscape shots at dusk & dawn. If you buy one of the photos, you get the one you bought, and usually a few smaller shots thrown in for free, plus a certificate to say you helped out a farmer in drought. If you search Ebay for 'farm pictures' or 'farm photos', you'll bring up all the photos available. (I think Ebay is blocked here at ARL, but check when you get home) Feel free to pass on the email to anyone, the more who know about this innovative young farmer the better. I'm not connected to the farm in any way, but am a country girl, and was wrapt to see someone thinking outside the square to try and save their family farm, so many farmers are leaving the land, and sadly some, who can't see any other way out, are taking the ultimate out (suicide). So help out a farmer, some of the photos are starting at 99 cents (plus $2-3 postage), and even if you don't win one, every cent that the price goes up will help. Ok, I'm getting off my soapbox now. :-) And to management who read this, I'm writing it in my lunchbreak :-) Thanks, Melissa.