Two Ways to Order: 
i) Online Ordering 
    → Go to www.help-shelterbelt.com and click on "store" 
         Under Notes to Seller Write:  I would like:  "Weyburn Pick Up" or "Shipping"  or write a date under 'schedule pick-up'  or shipping.   If you are picking up do NOT enter shipping information to avoid being charged for shipping.  If you are offering Uber-like services to carry other customer's trees, under 'notes to vendor, please indicate this and state the route you will take from Weyburn to your home location so HELP knows which customers are on your route. 
          
ii) Telephone Ordering
    → you can call us at cell (306)-861-0814 to place a telephone order if you are having challenges using the on line order system.  We will need: your name, telephone number, email for follow-up receipt, credit card information, name town or city nearest your residence, postal code and your preference for shipping date option or Weyburn pick-up.    

Remember: Everyone gets 5% extra of each variety of tree you order.  Pick Up customers get an extra 10% of their entire tree order but payable in same variety large willow (non identified but will be either golden, white or acute willow)
Word from the CEO: 
" am happy to announce that in 2022 our six years of repetitive drought has ended with more than 13 inches of rain falling in the region of our tree farm from April 1 through end July.  Areas of Manitoba say more than 23 inches during the same period! What a relief. Lets see if regular snow fall resumes again as well to help guarantee spring run off. 

Some major developments at HELP include: 
HRD: By mid 2022 the first of our eight new international foreign workers (one from each of eight countries) began arriving to make up our first completely non volunteer work force.  We plan on resuming our pre-covid international volunteer internship program but that will take a little time.   Half of our arriving workers possess Ph. D.s and MAs and other works claim strong technical backgrounds so I have high expectations for what we can achieve in the coming months and year!

Tree Sapling Production
Based upon two highly successful trial years in sapling production in 2010 and 2021 we have in 2022 set up a potted sapling nursery with an initial inventory of 10,000 potted saplings available for spring 2023.

Pre-positioning Tree Stocks
For the first time every we are  'a year ahead' in velosa and common lilac and Scott's Pine so customers do not have to wait for the few varieties of our trees that are produced in greenhouse to harden off.  This means that a good part of the new year's inventory will have been hardened off and have been living outdoors since the year prior. So they will be 'tough as nails'.  

Am happy to say we have again successfully kept our White Spruce stocks sufficiently high enough to market two year old white spruce for the price of one year olds.  The older the seedlings are in our system the tougher they are in the field.

Pre-positioning Supplies
Because of supply chain challenges in 2020 and 2021 and dramatic increases in fuel and plastics, we at HELP have been pre-positioning a year's supply in advance at HELP of peat moss, plastic mulch film, and drip irrigation supplies. 

Thank you to all landowners, municipalities, government departments, parks and schools across the prairies who purchase trees and planting services through HELP International's Shelterbelt Program"
A Quick Note: HELP International is a federally incorporated non-for-profit corporation and a federally registered charity. As a part volunteer organization HELP operates with volunteer forestry interns and apprentices from North America, Europe, Asia and Africa.  ​In addition HELP is now integrating several permanent nursery/forestry workers. 
HELP International was the recipient of two significant Achievement Awards  
  •     'Saskatchewan Environment Industry Leadership Award': for environment industry innovations in Canada
  •     SCIC 'Global Citizen Award': ​for our national  women-led agro-forestry program achievements in Kenya
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​NEW SHELTERBELT CENTRE LAUNCHED

For additional 
information about Watershed:
You can shop online for trees at our STORE 
For those who wish to download and fill out a paper form (to be paid by cheque or credit card), you can find it HERE

TREE ORDER AND REFUND POLICIES:
1.       Trees will be filled on a first come first serve basis
2.       Each customer's trees shall be separately packaged for shipping
3.        Customers who wish to cancel their order after paying will be given a 90% refund. The 10% retained by HELP
            pays for website marketing manager commissions, stripe financial services commissions, and HELP sale 
           administration.  
Any questions you cannot find answers for on this website under 'frequently asked questions', 'technical tree information' etc can  call the HELP office at (306) 861-0814.  Customers appreciate that HELP is a mixed professional and volunteer organization. Customers are asked to limit cumulative telephone consultations to thirty minutes per customer in the interests of HELP assisting all customers. 
Policy on Non Viable Trees 
i) HELP  adds 5 percentage extra trees to each order without charge to compensate for initial tree losses during establishment. ii) HELP provides any additional trees required for replants (when customer states the trees are for replants) within 18 months of planting at the preferred rate of $2.10 per seedling regardless if amount of trees re-ordered for replants is less than 300.  
iii) If an entire batch of a particular species is non viable then HELP will not distribute this non viable variety and will call the customer to arrange a substitution. 
iv) If ten or more clients confirm that an entire variety was non viable then HELP will replace or substitute an equal number of trees within a year, but preferably as soon as possible. This  applies if there is lack of establishment only when tree care, pests or disease prevalent in customer area, drought, hail, flooding or other extreme climatic conditions are ruled out.  The Shelterbelt program receives no government funding and survives 100% on the proceeds of tree sales and HELP's contract or community plantings revenue.