Cville Solarpunks

Post-scarcity, Free Services, and Mutual Aid in Charlottesville, VA

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This is a collated list of post-scarcity, free services, and mutual aid networks within the city of Charlottesville, VA and surrounding areas.Focus will be on services available to all - with no means testing.If a service requires means testing, it will be noted.

Food

The best place to store our extra food is in the bellies of our neighbors. The following is infrastructure and intentional mechanisms to produce post-scarcity food. Contribute to and use from.

Free Fridges & Community Pantries
Visible Records: Free Fridge
Location: 1740 Broadway St
- Give a food, take a food. Open 24/7. Walk up to outside refrigerator & pantry and take what you need. Bring any extra food or garden produce you have and place it in the Fridge & Pantry for your neighbors.
** The fridge is located by the Cville Tool Library, a community resource where tools can be borrowed.

Foraging & Fishing

The following include publicly accessible forageable plants and fishable waterways.

Falling Fruit - Cville
- If you locate forageable food, note the location in the app.
- If you plant publicly available forageable food, note the location in the app.

Tool Library

The Cville Tool Library is a collective and collaborative space that aims to empower the community with tools. Tools can be borrowed and/or donated, allowing others to "check out" tools for projects just like books from a library!

Little Free Libraries

These tiny libraries are community supported and sometimes provided by residents of Cville at the edge of their property to provide and share books for free. Take a book, leave a book!

Little Free Library - Use this app to locate the nearest one to you.