The Free Food Fridge flips that idea on its head. “[Food] seemed so inaccessible to me because food insecurity is something that I dealt with, and because we live in a city, you don’t really see where the food is coming from,” Anderson says. Food insecurity in the United States, defined by the USDA as the consistent lack of food on a household level, severely increased during the spring of 2020 when the coronavirus swept across the globe. Concerned about food insecurity in his own community, he plopped a fridge in his front yard and started offering free food to his neighborhood. Amy Ellis, community relations specialist at the Honest Weight Food Co-op, helps restock the Albany Free Food Fridges each Thursday afternoon.