Foodshed

Additionally, my point about only a couple hundred dollars owed was in response to the notion that some kind of win fall was to be had here. These are small denominations to "run away' with as was commented in the thread. $150 won't get you too far. I personally paid into the company to keep it afloat and it cost my family dearly, no one wanted to keep going more than me, and no invested more than me, and no lost more money than me.

Jess, I have in boxed you directly. To be 100% clear, Inspired Magazine has no connection to Flavor or Foodshed and has no subscribers, so I do not want any confusion there. The magazine is owned by a real estate group who still publishes it. I was a third party helping to establish the original design and concept and do not fund it.

I am perplexed by this thread. Flavor finalized its bankruptcy more than two years ago and Foodshed has been closed for more than a year. There was no money to "run" with. Flavor was inundated with legal issues from a stalker, not going into that, google it if you truly are interested, but Flavor filed bankruptcy due to it. If Flavor owed any monies, they were dealt with in the bankruptcy and as far as I know there are possibly two writers claiming to be owed less than $400 total, there is nothing I can personally do about it. Nearly all debts were paid prior to filing, I understand a few things may have fallen through the cracks that I was personally was unaware of, I can not pay those personally. The parties did not reach out and make a claim for a very long time after the fact. Flavor was an Inc, owned by several folks, I was the publisher, I am not in a legal position to pay the debts and would be in violation of the bankruptcy if I did. We are talking about a couple hundred dollars here and there is internal dispute by the staff that some are all even legitimate claims. There was channel to go through and that was over two years ago. I personally lost enormous amounts of money with Flavor. Foodshed began as an effort to try to continue to be a positive force in the Foodshed. It made NO money, all the subscriptions were bought at Foodshed's expense and carried over, they could have simply and legally stopped, the intention and effort was to fulfill them. Foodshed put out two issues, it made no money, and after having staff steal and undermine the organization, we made the decision to wrap it up and not incur anymore debt. There may be a very small number of folks who may have lost their subscription, as far as I am aware, paypal refunded them all. I personally have refunded anyone who has contacted me, plus sent them goodies as well. The work we did improved this Foodshed greatly, we worked tirelessly and for little to nothing, your $19.99 subscription did not go to waste, it changed the landscape and the conversation on local food and helped many businesses get off their feet and become viable. In total, the handful of subscriptions (according to this forum) and perhaps two or three writers with no agreements in place does not make a story or warrant this length of conversation. I do not have one email or fb from anyone regarding an unfulfilled subscription, I received two back when we realized the paypal link was still up and took care of them. I posted on this thread to please contact me directly for a refund, no one has. Paypal refunded the money they had in the account, that was supposed to be closed, and was no longer linked to any open bank account for the magazine. We had no access to those funds and paypal closed it down and refunded it. Again, feel free to inbox me, but I do not read these forums and will not be checking back. You all seem to have my fb specifics, so please do not hesitate to contact me and I will promptly respond to any legitimate issues, this appears to be mostly false information hidden behind pseudonyms. I welcome any real concerns or claims. If it is within my power to fix it, I will, but Flavor and Inspired are neither connected nor do I have any capacity to rectify their debts if there are actually any legitimate ones. There was no cash out, no golden parachute, just debt the management ate and the knowing that we did a really good thing for this community.

Foodshed is a non-profit and sadly the funding we counted on ended when some of our staff started their own careers and took that revenue stream and much of our resources with them. It was the final straw for an already fragile company. We have been earnestly working with a larger publishing company to "purchase" the magazine. Their wheels move slower than our needs. So the long answer is, maybe. Again, you are welcome to call the office if you have any questions or concerns. We are trying to not have to file bankruptcy and sell instead, we will see.

Hi All, Sorry for delay in getting a response out, no yoga for any of us this week, but some of us have been very busy with children, and final exams, and Christmas travel, etc going on. We have fb/emailed some of you directly, if we had your contact information, to discuss the matter. Nonetheless, the Foodshed paypal has been disabled for some time. There should not be any auto renewals happening. Since it is disabled, we have no way of seeing those renewals when they come in and do not have the capacity to send them back. We are in communication with Paypal to make sure this is rectified. In the interim, if you have had an auto renewal, please call us at the office and we will refund it promptly and we do apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. We have received one phone call and one email to date about this, so we did not have any knowdlege that it was occurring and it does not seem to be a large scale issue. P.S. No one is running off to Jamaica, simply a fb post that was posted incorrectly. We will be here to make sure things are taken care of. Happy Holidays.