Ziona Brownlow hopes the new community fridge in Mountain View helps combat hunger in Anchorage, where food insecurity soared during the pandemic and where inflation continues to drive up food prices.
On a sunny Saturday afternoon, Ziona Brownlow showed volunteers the ins and outs of the new community fridge in Mountain View, a north Anchorage neighborhood that’s one of the most ethnically diverse communities in the country. It’s also an area that’s been targeted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as having high levels of food insecurity.
Brownlow started thinking about the concept of a community fridge during the pandemic. She’d been working in food activism since 2018, when she founded. It started as a blog and she wrote about the ways local businesses were helping keep people fed. Then COVID-19 hit. While it’s been a chronic problem for years, food insecurity ballooned during the pandemic as people lost their jobs, said Cara Durr, chief of advocacy and public policy at the Food Bank of Alaska.
Durr said that’s also not to suggest the food at the community fridge isn’t safe to eat, and Brownlow said that volunteers follow national food safety precautions when handling food.
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