food insecurity

Detroit Community Fridge continues to tackle food insecurity one person at a time

Detroit Community Fridge, a grassroots mutual aid project started during the pandemic, has grown to manage four fridges with food…

3 years ago

Pandemic grocery store anxiety made an attorney learn how to eat from the land

Filling Our Plates: Hundreds of new home gardeners in Detroit took food sovereignty into their own hands, with the support…

3 years ago

With no stove, no car, no money for rent, a single mom found a neighborhood lifeline

Filling Our Plates: Mutual aid is getting funds to people in need in vulnerable communities like Southwest Detroit -- and…

3 years ago

Filling Our Plates: Detroit food security innovations

Filling Our Plates profiles Detroiters who faced food insecurity during the pandemic -- and the innovations they and local groups…

3 years ago

This retired hospital worker started a free food fair on her block — with food that would have gone into a landfill

Filling Our Plates: A Detroit nonprofit is using an Uber-like app to connect businesses with small amounts of food to…

3 years ago

She lost her job while on maternity leave. A free online grocery store kept her family fed.

Filling Our Plates: How an innovative Detroit emergency food distribution model empowered recipients through choice.

3 years ago

Eat fugly food, save the world: Flashfood launches in Detroit

You know when you’re checking out some buzzy new app, only to get the “Sorry, not yet available in your…

6 years ago