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This week's guest editor is Taylor Scott, a community organizing powerhouse! Originally planning to join the FBI, Taylor found her calling in grassroots organizing and mutual aid work. In 2020, she founded RVA Community Fridges after her hydroponic garden's abundant harvest sparked her understanding of food systems and community needs.
What began as one fridge in Church Hill, created with friends, has grown into 15 locations across Richmond, with a focus on communities affected by redlining and food apartheid. Scott has helped establish community fridges throughout Virginia and beyond. She also co-runs Matchbox Mutual Aid, a brick-and-mortar kitchen space that partners with Richmond Food Not Bombs to host community cook days, events, and free food-based courses.
A New Orleans native who now calls Richmond home, Taylor enjoys fiber arts like sewing, crocheting, and knitting. She shares her space with Serrano, a 3-year-old Red Foot Tortoise named after the pepper.
Take it away, Taylor ...
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