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PLS HELP! Fridgeport's "Take What You Need" Free Food Fridge Provides 24 Hour Food Pantry

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Stephanie Webster March 04, 2023

In 2020, local food advocate, Reggy Saint Fortcolin, and Kingdom Builders Impact Ministries, launched Fridgeport, a mutual aid food initiative, based in Bridgeport. Fridgeport is a free food fridge, or community fridge, located at at 219 James Street. It’s open 24/7, and is a way to get free resources to people in the Bridgeport community, at any level of need. These types of fridges have been popping up all over cities and towns, many of which were launched during the pandemic when food pantries were struggling to meet the needs of their recipients and donations were at a low point. Since opening, additional CT locations have been launched in New Haven (@fridgehaven) and Hartford (@fridgeford)..

Why is this different from a food pantry? Reggy states that while food pantries provide a useful resource, their assessment and allocation amounts will vary based on an equation of “need,” but sometimes that allocation simply isn’t enough to keep families fed. Fridgeport is a take what you need resource.

Feeding 1000's @ The Bridgeport Rescue Mission

Bridgeport Food Donation

Liz Rueven September 09, 2010

Restaurant Chefs are a self reliant bunch. Chef Paul Byron reminded me of that fact when I met him in the dining area of the Bridgeport Rescue Mission. Chefs are by nature, creative, resourceful, organized planners. They manage ingredient lists, weekly menus and schedules of all kinds. These details and more, factor into the efficiency of a restaurant kitchen and ultimately into the presentation of tempting plates to restaurant patrons.

Now, imagine for a moment, the opposite. Imagine a chef that prepares three meals a day including five seatings for dinner. He rarely orders or chooses his ingredients, rather he cooks with what is available to him.