#communityfridges — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #communityfridges, aggregated by home.social.
-
Solidarity, not charity: A comprehensive guide to food access and mutual aid in Buffalo.
When systemic safety nets fall short, the community steps in. Building real neighborhood power begins with ensuring our neighbors have their basic material needs met. Whether it is finding a safe place during a winter freeze or accessing fresh groceries for the week, mutual aid functions as the lifeblood of a resilient city.
We compiled a wide-ranging directory of food access and emergency resources directly into The Rising Tide Fellowship Linktree. This list connects you to the Buffalo Community Fridges, local neighborhood pantries, FeedMore WNY, SNAP resources, and emergency Code Blue shelters.
Experiencing food insecurity or needing a warm place to stay is a structural failure of the current economy, not a personal flaw. Mutual aid is about neighbors helping neighbors survive an extractive system.
If you or someone you know is looking for support, or if you are an organizer looking for local initiatives to plug into and help distribute resources, you can find the direct links in our digital headquarters.
Link: https://linktr.ee/rtfe
#Buffalo #MutualAid #FoodAccess #CommunityFridges #BuffaloNY #Solidarity #RisingTide #WorkingClass #WNY #Anarchism -
Solidarity, not charity: A comprehensive guide to food access and mutual aid in Buffalo.
When systemic safety nets fall short, the community steps in. Building real neighborhood power begins with ensuring our neighbors have their basic material needs met. Whether it is finding a safe place during a winter freeze or accessing fresh groceries for the week, mutual aid functions as the lifeblood of a resilient city.
We compiled a wide-ranging directory of food access and emergency resources directly into The Rising Tide Fellowship Linktree. This list connects you to the Buffalo Community Fridges, local neighborhood pantries, FeedMore WNY, SNAP resources, and emergency Code Blue shelters.
Experiencing food insecurity or needing a warm place to stay is a structural failure of the current economy, not a personal flaw. Mutual aid is about neighbors helping neighbors survive an extractive system.
If you or someone you know is looking for support, or if you are an organizer looking for local initiatives to plug into and help distribute resources, you can find the direct links in our digital headquarters.
Link: https://linktr.ee/rtfe
#Buffalo #MutualAid #FoodAccess #CommunityFridges #BuffaloNY #Solidarity #RisingTide #WorkingClass #WNY #Anarchism -
Solidarity, not charity: A comprehensive guide to food access and mutual aid in Buffalo.
When systemic safety nets fall short, the community steps in. Building real neighborhood power begins with ensuring our neighbors have their basic material needs met. Whether it is finding a safe place during a winter freeze or accessing fresh groceries for the week, mutual aid functions as the lifeblood of a resilient city.
We compiled a wide-ranging directory of food access and emergency resources directly into The Rising Tide Fellowship Linktree. This list connects you to the Buffalo Community Fridges, local neighborhood pantries, FeedMore WNY, SNAP resources, and emergency Code Blue shelters.
Experiencing food insecurity or needing a warm place to stay is a structural failure of the current economy, not a personal flaw. Mutual aid is about neighbors helping neighbors survive an extractive system.
If you or someone you know is looking for support, or if you are an organizer looking for local initiatives to plug into and help distribute resources, you can find the direct links in our digital headquarters.
Link: https://linktr.ee/rtfe
#Buffalo #MutualAid #FoodAccess #CommunityFridges #BuffaloNY #Solidarity #RisingTide #WorkingClass #WNY #Anarchism -
Solidarity, not charity: A comprehensive guide to food access and mutual aid in Buffalo.
When systemic safety nets fall short, the community steps in. Building real neighborhood power begins with ensuring our neighbors have their basic material needs met. Whether it is finding a safe place during a winter freeze or accessing fresh groceries for the week, mutual aid functions as the lifeblood of a resilient city.
We compiled a wide-ranging directory of food access and emergency resources directly into The Rising Tide Fellowship Linktree. This list connects you to the Buffalo Community Fridges, local neighborhood pantries, FeedMore WNY, SNAP resources, and emergency Code Blue shelters.
Experiencing food insecurity or needing a warm place to stay is a structural failure of the current economy, not a personal flaw. Mutual aid is about neighbors helping neighbors survive an extractive system.
If you or someone you know is looking for support, or if you are an organizer looking for local initiatives to plug into and help distribute resources, you can find the direct links in our digital headquarters.
Link: https://linktr.ee/rtfe
#Buffalo #MutualAid #FoodAccess #CommunityFridges #BuffaloNY #Solidarity #RisingTide #WorkingClass #WNY #Anarchism -
#NewYork - Services for the UnderServed using #UrbanGardens to target food insecurity
The initiative has been so successful that Services for the UnderServed plans to include gardens in all future developments.
Rob Flaks, Jul 17, 2025
"In a city where food and housing insecurity often go hand in hand, Services for the UnderServed (S:US) is planting solutions for both at the same time.
"At a supportive housing complex in #BedStuy, residents are tending to one of the first urban gardens launched by S:US back in 2011. The garden features edible plants, flowers, and even beehives producing fresh honey, - all maintained by the tenants themselves." 'To be able to garden, get your hands dirty—it’s an amazing resource I hope all of our community has access to,' said Mike Hollis, vice president of #FoodInsecurity at S:US.
"The initiative has been so successful that S:US plans to include gardens in all future developments. 'When you have that foundation of #HousingSecurity and #FoodSecurity, it gives people the stability to take the next steps in wellness, employment and personal growth,' Hollis said.
"The Bed-Stuy building, which offers stabilized rent for individuals with disabilities and serious health conditions, is home to 54 residents. For tenant Yussuf Salam, the garden has been life-changing. 'I got into the garden, I went to school—you learn things about yourself,' he said."But the gardens are just one of over 30 such properties in the borough, with a total of 1,484 housing units. But their latest project is taking root in #EastNewYork, where the organization is developing #Alafia, one of its largest projects to date.
"Alafia is a multiphased, mixed-use development on a 28.5-acre site in the #SpringCreek area. Once complete, it will include 2,400 units of #AffordableHousing and #SupportiveHousing, a health clinic, community and commercial spaces, manufacturing facilities and over 11 acres of publicly #accessible open space.
"Alafia is currently partially opened with 452 affordable housing units for tenants—many of whom are formerly homeless or living with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
"Those behind the project say projects like these are the size and scope they need to tackle our boroughs housing crisis.
" 'That is such an opportunity for the organization and the borough to expand the work, giving people dignified housing and spaces to grow their own food,' Hollis said."Just like in Bed-Stuy, any surplus produce from Alafia’s gardens will be donated to local #CommunityFridges, ensuring that the benefits extend beyond the housing sites themselves."
#SolarPunkSunday #UrbanGardens #UrbanPlanning #GreenSpace #GrowYourOwn #GreenTime
-
#NewYork - Services for the UnderServed using #UrbanGardens to target food insecurity
The initiative has been so successful that Services for the UnderServed plans to include gardens in all future developments.
Rob Flaks, Jul 17, 2025
"In a city where food and housing insecurity often go hand in hand, Services for the UnderServed (S:US) is planting solutions for both at the same time.
"At a supportive housing complex in #BedStuy, residents are tending to one of the first urban gardens launched by S:US back in 2011. The garden features edible plants, flowers, and even beehives producing fresh honey, - all maintained by the tenants themselves." 'To be able to garden, get your hands dirty—it’s an amazing resource I hope all of our community has access to,' said Mike Hollis, vice president of #FoodInsecurity at S:US.
"The initiative has been so successful that S:US plans to include gardens in all future developments. 'When you have that foundation of #HousingSecurity and #FoodSecurity, it gives people the stability to take the next steps in wellness, employment and personal growth,' Hollis said.
"The Bed-Stuy building, which offers stabilized rent for individuals with disabilities and serious health conditions, is home to 54 residents. For tenant Yussuf Salam, the garden has been life-changing. 'I got into the garden, I went to school—you learn things about yourself,' he said."But the gardens are just one of over 30 such properties in the borough, with a total of 1,484 housing units. But their latest project is taking root in #EastNewYork, where the organization is developing #Alafia, one of its largest projects to date.
"Alafia is a multiphased, mixed-use development on a 28.5-acre site in the #SpringCreek area. Once complete, it will include 2,400 units of #AffordableHousing and #SupportiveHousing, a health clinic, community and commercial spaces, manufacturing facilities and over 11 acres of publicly #accessible open space.
"Alafia is currently partially opened with 452 affordable housing units for tenants—many of whom are formerly homeless or living with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
"Those behind the project say projects like these are the size and scope they need to tackle our boroughs housing crisis.
" 'That is such an opportunity for the organization and the borough to expand the work, giving people dignified housing and spaces to grow their own food,' Hollis said."Just like in Bed-Stuy, any surplus produce from Alafia’s gardens will be donated to local #CommunityFridges, ensuring that the benefits extend beyond the housing sites themselves."
#SolarPunkSunday #UrbanGardens #UrbanPlanning #GreenSpace #GrowYourOwn #GreenTime
-
#NewYork - Services for the UnderServed using #UrbanGardens to target food insecurity
The initiative has been so successful that Services for the UnderServed plans to include gardens in all future developments.
Rob Flaks, Jul 17, 2025
"In a city where food and housing insecurity often go hand in hand, Services for the UnderServed (S:US) is planting solutions for both at the same time.
"At a supportive housing complex in #BedStuy, residents are tending to one of the first urban gardens launched by S:US back in 2011. The garden features edible plants, flowers, and even beehives producing fresh honey, - all maintained by the tenants themselves." 'To be able to garden, get your hands dirty—it’s an amazing resource I hope all of our community has access to,' said Mike Hollis, vice president of #FoodInsecurity at S:US.
"The initiative has been so successful that S:US plans to include gardens in all future developments. 'When you have that foundation of #HousingSecurity and #FoodSecurity, it gives people the stability to take the next steps in wellness, employment and personal growth,' Hollis said.
"The Bed-Stuy building, which offers stabilized rent for individuals with disabilities and serious health conditions, is home to 54 residents. For tenant Yussuf Salam, the garden has been life-changing. 'I got into the garden, I went to school—you learn things about yourself,' he said."But the gardens are just one of over 30 such properties in the borough, with a total of 1,484 housing units. But their latest project is taking root in #EastNewYork, where the organization is developing #Alafia, one of its largest projects to date.
"Alafia is a multiphased, mixed-use development on a 28.5-acre site in the #SpringCreek area. Once complete, it will include 2,400 units of #AffordableHousing and #SupportiveHousing, a health clinic, community and commercial spaces, manufacturing facilities and over 11 acres of publicly #accessible open space.
"Alafia is currently partially opened with 452 affordable housing units for tenants—many of whom are formerly homeless or living with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
"Those behind the project say projects like these are the size and scope they need to tackle our boroughs housing crisis.
" 'That is such an opportunity for the organization and the borough to expand the work, giving people dignified housing and spaces to grow their own food,' Hollis said."Just like in Bed-Stuy, any surplus produce from Alafia’s gardens will be donated to local #CommunityFridges, ensuring that the benefits extend beyond the housing sites themselves."
#SolarPunkSunday #UrbanGardens #UrbanPlanning #GreenSpace #GrowYourOwn #GreenTime
-
#NewYork - Services for the UnderServed using #UrbanGardens to target food insecurity
The initiative has been so successful that Services for the UnderServed plans to include gardens in all future developments.
Rob Flaks, Jul 17, 2025
"In a city where food and housing insecurity often go hand in hand, Services for the UnderServed (S:US) is planting solutions for both at the same time.
"At a supportive housing complex in #BedStuy, residents are tending to one of the first urban gardens launched by S:US back in 2011. The garden features edible plants, flowers, and even beehives producing fresh honey, - all maintained by the tenants themselves." 'To be able to garden, get your hands dirty—it’s an amazing resource I hope all of our community has access to,' said Mike Hollis, vice president of #FoodInsecurity at S:US.
"The initiative has been so successful that S:US plans to include gardens in all future developments. 'When you have that foundation of #HousingSecurity and #FoodSecurity, it gives people the stability to take the next steps in wellness, employment and personal growth,' Hollis said.
"The Bed-Stuy building, which offers stabilized rent for individuals with disabilities and serious health conditions, is home to 54 residents. For tenant Yussuf Salam, the garden has been life-changing. 'I got into the garden, I went to school—you learn things about yourself,' he said."But the gardens are just one of over 30 such properties in the borough, with a total of 1,484 housing units. But their latest project is taking root in #EastNewYork, where the organization is developing #Alafia, one of its largest projects to date.
"Alafia is a multiphased, mixed-use development on a 28.5-acre site in the #SpringCreek area. Once complete, it will include 2,400 units of #AffordableHousing and #SupportiveHousing, a health clinic, community and commercial spaces, manufacturing facilities and over 11 acres of publicly #accessible open space.
"Alafia is currently partially opened with 452 affordable housing units for tenants—many of whom are formerly homeless or living with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
"Those behind the project say projects like these are the size and scope they need to tackle our boroughs housing crisis.
" 'That is such an opportunity for the organization and the borough to expand the work, giving people dignified housing and spaces to grow their own food,' Hollis said."Just like in Bed-Stuy, any surplus produce from Alafia’s gardens will be donated to local #CommunityFridges, ensuring that the benefits extend beyond the housing sites themselves."
#SolarPunkSunday #UrbanGardens #UrbanPlanning #GreenSpace #GrowYourOwn #GreenTime
-
#NewYork - Services for the UnderServed using #UrbanGardens to target food insecurity
The initiative has been so successful that Services for the UnderServed plans to include gardens in all future developments.
Rob Flaks, Jul 17, 2025
"In a city where food and housing insecurity often go hand in hand, Services for the UnderServed (S:US) is planting solutions for both at the same time.
"At a supportive housing complex in #BedStuy, residents are tending to one of the first urban gardens launched by S:US back in 2011. The garden features edible plants, flowers, and even beehives producing fresh honey, - all maintained by the tenants themselves." 'To be able to garden, get your hands dirty—it’s an amazing resource I hope all of our community has access to,' said Mike Hollis, vice president of #FoodInsecurity at S:US.
"The initiative has been so successful that S:US plans to include gardens in all future developments. 'When you have that foundation of #HousingSecurity and #FoodSecurity, it gives people the stability to take the next steps in wellness, employment and personal growth,' Hollis said.
"The Bed-Stuy building, which offers stabilized rent for individuals with disabilities and serious health conditions, is home to 54 residents. For tenant Yussuf Salam, the garden has been life-changing. 'I got into the garden, I went to school—you learn things about yourself,' he said."But the gardens are just one of over 30 such properties in the borough, with a total of 1,484 housing units. But their latest project is taking root in #EastNewYork, where the organization is developing #Alafia, one of its largest projects to date.
"Alafia is a multiphased, mixed-use development on a 28.5-acre site in the #SpringCreek area. Once complete, it will include 2,400 units of #AffordableHousing and #SupportiveHousing, a health clinic, community and commercial spaces, manufacturing facilities and over 11 acres of publicly #accessible open space.
"Alafia is currently partially opened with 452 affordable housing units for tenants—many of whom are formerly homeless or living with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
"Those behind the project say projects like these are the size and scope they need to tackle our boroughs housing crisis.
" 'That is such an opportunity for the organization and the borough to expand the work, giving people dignified housing and spaces to grow their own food,' Hollis said."Just like in Bed-Stuy, any surplus produce from Alafia’s gardens will be donated to local #CommunityFridges, ensuring that the benefits extend beyond the housing sites themselves."
#SolarPunkSunday #UrbanGardens #UrbanPlanning #GreenSpace #GrowYourOwn #GreenTime
-
Open-access #CommunityFridges in Berlin were a social innovation to improve inclusion: they don't require personal connections nor the use of an online service, so they reduce gatekeeping in #FoodSharing (Oona Morrow 2019).
In the USA, some cases reproduced the power imbalances of traditional #FoodAid and displayed white saviorism (Anna Arons 2022).
In Chicago they partnered with Black and Brown people-run orgs (Saria Lofton 2021).
Links to refs: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Community_fridge&oldid=1267267926#cite_note-47
-
Vesna Prekopic: "Ännu har vi inte kylskåp uppställda på gatorna i Sverige, men den dagen de behövs är det just för att verklighetens folk i praktiken inte betytt något på länge".
Fast vi har det redan på sätt och vis: t.ex. Matmissionen med sina butiker för människor med låg inkomst.
https://www.dn.se/kultur/vesna-prekopic-varfor-ses-inte-den-vaxande-fattigdomen-som-ett-problem/
https://www.stadsmissionen.se/vad-vi-gor/matmissionen/matmissionen-vara-butiker
#matmissionen #fattigdom #poverty #charity #communityfridges
-
Food, an issue of social justice: Food movements, public policy, and inequality
Issue linked on page six of our Fall 2023 Newsletter
https://foodstudies.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Fall-2023-Newsletter-CAFS.pdf
#OpenAccess #OpenAccessJournal #Food #FoodStudies #FoodResearch #FoodMovements #SocialMovements #Inequality #PublicPolicy #Quebec #France #Switzerland #SchoolLunches #UrbanAgriculture #CommunityFridges #EmergencyFood #IndigenousFoodSovereignty #GreenGentrification
-
Food, an issue of social justice: Food movements, public policy, and inequality
Issue linked on page six of our Fall 2023 Newsletter
https://foodstudies.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Fall-2023-Newsletter-CAFS.pdf
#OpenAccess #OpenAccessJournal #Food #FoodStudies #FoodResearch #FoodMovements #SocialMovements #Inequality #PublicPolicy #Quebec #France #Switzerland #SchoolLunches #UrbanAgriculture #CommunityFridges #EmergencyFood #IndigenousFoodSovereignty #GreenGentrification
-
Food, an issue of social justice: Food movements, public policy, and inequality
Issue linked on page six of our Fall 2023 Newsletter
https://foodstudies.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Fall-2023-Newsletter-CAFS.pdf
#OpenAccess #OpenAccessJournal #Food #FoodStudies #FoodResearch #FoodMovements #SocialMovements #Inequality #PublicPolicy #Quebec #France #Switzerland #SchoolLunches #UrbanAgriculture #CommunityFridges #EmergencyFood #IndigenousFoodSovereignty #GreenGentrification
-
Food, an issue of social justice: Food movements, public policy, and inequality
Issue linked on page six of our Fall 2023 Newsletter
https://foodstudies.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Fall-2023-Newsletter-CAFS.pdf
#OpenAccess #OpenAccessJournal #Food #FoodStudies #FoodResearch #FoodMovements #SocialMovements #Inequality #PublicPolicy #Quebec #France #Switzerland #SchoolLunches #UrbanAgriculture #CommunityFridges #EmergencyFood #IndigenousFoodSovereignty #GreenGentrification
-
Food, an issue of social justice: Food movements, public policy, and inequality
Issue linked on page six of our Fall 2023 Newsletter
https://foodstudies.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Fall-2023-Newsletter-CAFS.pdf
#OpenAccess #OpenAccessJournal #Food #FoodStudies #FoodResearch #FoodMovements #SocialMovements #Inequality #PublicPolicy #Quebec #France #Switzerland #SchoolLunches #UrbanAgriculture #CommunityFridges #EmergencyFood #IndigenousFoodSovereignty #GreenGentrification
-
How are communities addressing rising food prices? With solidarity, imagination & care while building better, more resilient local food systems.
The latest in our series on communities tackling the #costofliving crisis centres on food.
And it's a tasty menu of community-led actions, from #CommunityFridges, social supermarkets, neighbours forming food buying co-ops, groups growing food for anyone to harvest and more.
This is your uplifting read to start the weekend! https://transitiontogether.org.uk/eat-grow-share-communities-building-food-resilience/
-
#Communityfridges offer free food — from fresh produce to home-cooked meals — along with sanitary products and other health-related supplies to communities in need, no questions asked.
Normally run by volunteers or individuals, the fridges are publicly accessible, and supplies are almost completely sourced from local generosity...
https://mashable.com/article/how-to-get-involved-community-fridge