What is freedge?

Freedge is a sharing mechanism aiming to reduce food insecurity and food waste, building a stronger community. We promote equal access to healthy food through the installation of community fridges (public refrigerators) that are used to share food and ideas at the neighborhood level.

GIVE

Wanna help a friend in need? Your garden is full of fruits and veggies and you wanna share some? Leaving for the weekend with a full fridge?

TAKE

Feeling Hungry? Planning a grocery run? Check the freedge. Maybe what you need is there waiting for you.

SHARE

Get involved in your community and start a conversation about food insecurity, food waste and the food system. Freedge is a free sharing space used not only for food, but also stories, art and ideas!

Start a Freedge! Check our resources webpage below.

Help us spread community fridges!

STAFF

Sabrina

Building Master + Bank Stuff
sabrina@freedge.org

Val

Grants + Fiscal Sponsorship
valerie@freedge.org

Ernst

Legal Advice + Mapping
ernst@freedge.org

Meet the Freedgers!

Can't have community fridges without community!

These are just some of the awesome people who have contributed to the freedge movement:

Ednan

Araraquara – Brazil

Mama B

Oakland – CA

ALI

Davis

Nadja

The (N)ice Box – Saskatoon

CJ

Davis

KO & MOMO

The Chestnut freedge – Davis

Anisha

Design things / meme expert – Los Angeles

Madeline

UX/UI expert for the freedge-checker team – Davis

Dat

Computer Vision / Machine Learning expert for the freedge-checker team – Davis

Vega

Hardware/Software expert for the freedge-checker team – Davis

Jessi

Davis

Marlon

Cascavel – Brazil

Becky

FoCo Freedge – Fort Collins

Emma and the project Avocado

The NYU Freedge

ELENICE & KLEBER

Valinhos – Brazil

Youyou

Paris – France

Akshay

The Garage Cafe – Davis

Kiri

The CSU freedge in Fort Collins – CO
kirimich@rams.colostate.edu

Eric

Washington-DC

Noemi

Yellow Fridge – Cluj – Romania

Julia

Davis

Rich

Davis

Lisa

OUR AWESOME MENTOR – Berkeley

check our freedge map at freedge.org/locations

Freedge in the News

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