City Feed and Supply

A Guide to Boston’s Community Fridges - Eater Boston

"The Jamaica Plain Community Fridge is back, and this time it’s set up behind City Feed and Supply on Centre Street. Acceptable items include clean produce that is in good condition, bread, water bottles, frozen food, canned goods, and other essentials. Pre-made meals are okay too, as long as containers are labeled with ingredients, date made, and expiration dates. The JP community fridge, originally located in front of D’Friends Barber Shop in Jamaica Plain’s Hyde Square neighborhood, was one of the first to appear in the Boston area, organized by a team that includes Veronica Bettio, who got a how-to guide from the anarchist community organizer group A New World In Our Hearts (which launched a fridge in Brooklyn earlier in 2020), and Josiel Gonzalez, who was similarly inspired by community fridge projects in New York. “We would like for this fridge to be a safe zone for the community and serve as an outlet to come together and uplift one another,” Gonzalez previously told Eater. “We encourage folks in need to utilize the fridge and feed their families. No one should go to sleep hungry.”" - Rachel Leah Blumenthal, Terrence Doyle