My Birthday Wish: More Paid Subscribers
Upgrade to paid and help me celebrate surviving another trip around the sun
Support Local Food Forum — and World Central Kitchen — With a Paid Subscription
So I’m one day away from completing yet another trip around the sun. On the one hand it’s something utterly routine, and on the other is surely nothing to take for granted.
I think you know I love doing Local Food Forum — it’s really my dream job — and I haven’t been pushy about lobbying for paid subscriptions. I love all our free subscribers, and we’ve had a nice little surge lately that has pushed the total number of subscribers to nearly 700.
Nonetheless, the little food newsletter that could is still way short of being self-supporting, which is why I’m doing a lot of contract work along with publishing Local Food Forum nearly daily.
Ergo, without great expectations, I’m asking you to consider purchasing or upgrading to a paid subscription. Whatever comes in will bring the newsletter at least one small step toward self-sufficiency. I do dream of a day when I can focus all of my attentions on building out Local Food Forum to its full potential (of which I feel I’ve only scratched the surface).
It’s a good value: $50 a year for a regular paid subscription and $100 to be a Founder.
And as a sweetener, I will share 10% of each $50 subscription — and 20% of each $100 subscription — with World Central Kitchen, the remarkable organization founded and run by Chef José Andrés that races to trouble spots around the world, be they conflict zones or natural disasters, to feed displaced and desperate people.
I am a huge admirer of the non-profit and was proud to participate in the Chicago Chefs Cook fundraisers that benefited World Central Kitchen’s efforts in Ukraine after the Russian invasion and Puerto Rico after a devastating hurricane. I am also doing a birthday fundraiser on Facebook for World Central Kitchen.
That’s the whole pitch. I am grateful for your interest in Local Food Forum, and will be super-grateful for any new paid subscriptions that come in.
Thanks,
Bob