When Kroger closed five Pick n’ Save locations in the Milwaukee area last summer, a group in one of the affected neighborhoods spearheaded mutual aid efforts to feed its community.
Metcalfe Park Community Bridges partnered with Tricklebee Café and the nonpartisan coalition One MKE to open a community-powered fridge. It’s a fridge at Tricklebee where anyone from the community can stock food items like fruits, vegetables or deli items, and take what they need for free.
Last Friday, another ribbon-cutting — this time at the offices of Metcalfe Park Community Bridges — celebrated the opening of four new fridges…