BATON ROUGE - Residents gathered at BREC s Howell Park on Sunday to help harvest vegetables from the Baton Roots community farm before the bitter cold weather expected through the week.
Mutual aid initatives took off across the country amidst the financial and food insecurity of the pandemic. One of the most common and accessible of these are free community fridges, where neighbors and local organizations donate food from fresh baked bread to kale from the garden for anyone to come and take. There are dozens of these volunteer-run "freedges" throughout the Hudson Valley.
ST. PETERSBURG — Several months ago, a nondescript white refrigerator took up residence on the 8400 block of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street in St. Petersburg. A sign on
Conway Free Fridge gets to stay, city says Free Fridge up and running in Conway and Green Sea. (Source: WMBF News) By Katie Powell | March 13, 2021 at 10:37 AM EST - Updated March 13 at 10:38 AM
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The city of Conway is cool with the Conway Free Fridge project.
After initially opposing the perishable food giveaway project and even warning organizers that they could be cited for keeping an abandoned refrigerator, the program received a thumbs up from the cityâs Community Appearance Board this week.
âObviously, we want them to be successful,â said Jessica Hucks, the cityâs planning director.