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Update on the new Free Fridge and Community Pantry in town!

They've completed the electrical work and are laying a concrete slab today. They're also bringing in a person to build out a pantry and paint a mural on it.

We have a ribbon cutting ceremony scheduled for December 7th where folks will bring shelf stable food and fresh produce to add to the first stocking of the fridge!

Note: this site really wanted to go all in. You really only need electrical and something to put the fridge on (minimum concrete blocks or a pallet). But these folks decided to put donated funds to it as they are focused on serving the community.

I'll post pictures of the ribbon cutting ceremony!

Also also! Two other sites have expressed interest in hosting a free fridge now that they've heard about this one! Once you build the first one, subsequent ones become easier!

#freeFridge #mutualAid #solarPunk #foodScarcity #foodSecurity #postScarcity

Tinker ☀️

@tinker@infosec.exchange replied · 2 months ago

Update on the new Free Fridge and Community Pantry in town!

They've completed the electrical work and are laying a concrete slab today. They're also bringing in a person to build out a pantry and paint a mural on it.

We have a ribbon cutting ceremony scheduled for December 7th where folks will bring shelf stable food and fresh produce to add to the first stocking of the fridge!

I'll post pictures of the ribbon cutting ceremony!

Also also! Two other sites have expressed interest in hosting a free fridge now that they've heard about this one! Once you build the first one, subsequent ones become easier!

#freeFridge #mutualAid #solarPunk #foodScarcity #foodSecurity #postScarcity

Tinker ☀️

@tinker@infosec.exchange replied · 2 months ago

Here's some picture's for the concrete slab and electrical outlets for the new Free Fridge in town!

Note: Free fridges don't usually require this level of installation. As long as the fridge has power and a place to sit (even if its on a used pallet), thats good enough.

This church was given a donation with the stipulation that it go to serving the local community, and they decided to install a free fridge and put some infrastructure and accessibility behind it.

#solarPunk #mutualAid #freeFridge #foodSecurity #foodScarcity #postScarcity

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Concrete beds with rebar laid out in prep for concrete being poured.

A tarp protects freshly laid concrete from light rain.

Tinker ☀️

@tinker@infosec.exchange replied · last month

We did it!!!

We built a new free fridge and community pantry!

It took about a hundred days from deciding to do it, through planning, and finally execution (thread above tracks this). And that is for putting down concrete and electrical. If we did a simple fridge on a pallet, it can be quicker. But even going all out, dang!

So we held the ribbon cutting ceremony. A lot of folks showed up to do the initial stock. Now we'll maintain it and spread the word out to the community. The town has a food resource app. The library maintains a list. I'll add it to our site. The local paper is writing an article.

This is also just the first part of this fridge. They're adding another pantry and an awning to cover it all.

Alright. This one is done. On to the next one!

#solarPunk #solarPunkSunday #freeFridge #foodSecurity #postScarcity #mutualAid

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A free fridge stands outside next to a community pantry.

A detail of the pantry shows a massive amount of food stocked. Cans, boxes, packets of vegetables, soups, pastas, and desserts.

Folks lined up to stock the fridge and pantry

Open freezer showing stocked food including an entire frozen turkey.

Jdb_env

@Jdb_env@mastodon.social replied · last month

@tinker
Hi,

Awesome! Congrats.

Josh

@krnlg@mastodon.social replied · last month

@tinker
Absolutely amazing, very well done!

Branwen OShea (she/her)

@BranwenOShea@writing.exchange replied · last month

@tinker Love this! Thank you!

CautionWIP- don’t follow me - (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🕎

@Caution@tech.lgbt replied · last month

@tinker A) very cool!
B) what’s the app for food resources you mentioned? I’d love to check that out!

Leela Torres

@LeelaTorres@ieji.de replied · last month

@tinker
Great work.
Let you inspire by
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foodsharing.de

foodsharing.de - Wikipedia

Tinker ☀️

@tinker@infosec.exchange replied · last month

@LeelaTorres - Food Rescue is great! We've got a couple programs in town that conduct food rescue. One is through the food bank and the other through Food Rescue US (as well as some one off, ad-hoc rescues here and there)