In Anchorage’s Mountain View neighborhood, a community fridge that offers food to the public for free is part of a grassroots effort to combat food insecurity.
Anchorage’s first community fridge is located in the patio of Umoja CoWorking in the Mountain View neighborhood, photographed on Saturday.
Anchorage’s first community fridge officially opened to the public Saturday. It is located on the Umoja CoWorking patio at 4119 Mountain View Drive and is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day. A 6-by-8-foot weatherproof structure houses two small coolers — donated by the Dimond Boulevard Fred Meyer — and three wire shelving units.
Social worker and Anchorage resident Ziona Brownlow is organizing the community fridge project through her mutual aid cooperative,opted for the Mountain View neighborhood because of community connections and interest in the project. “She’s been doing this since she was little,” Inman said of Brownlow’s activism. “This is just the beginning. That’s a woman on a mission.”Food insecurity on the rise
The community fridge concept differs from the food pantries already serving Anchorage because of the grassroots, volunteer-led nature of the projects that spring up neighborhood by neighborhood, supporters say.Food pantry requirements vary from partner to partner, said Cara Durr, chief of advocacy and public policy at the Food Bank of Alaska.
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