Rooted in Southern Appalachia
Weaving
community
through food
Caja Solidaria is a regenerative farm, a shared use kitchen, food sharing hub and a tool sharing library -- run by neighbors for neighbors. Each strand of our work pulls on the others.
We need you
in the weave
There is no membership, no minimum, no right way to show up. Pick a thread and pull.
- Find our food
- Register for a free nutrition class
- Volunteer at the farm(opens in new tab)
- Use the shared-use kitchen(opens in new tab)
- Rent the event space(opens in new tab)
- Enroll a patient in Food is Medicine
- Borrow tools
- Help plan next season's restaurant(opens in new tab)
- Join the Food is Medicine coalition(opens in new tab)
What the weave holds
Together, we are growing a healthier, more connected community through food, land, and shared resources.
since we started counting
- 32,000
- services delivered to neighbors
- 672
- households fed and connected
- $5M
- invested in local farmers + vendors
- 100
- meals cooked every week
- 8
- kitchen entrepreneurs launched
- 3.6
- acres in production in Mills River
A stronger community, thread by thread.
Communities can govern and care for shared resources effectively when they have the relationships, knowledge, and ability to shape the rules together.
Learned from the work of Elinor Ostrom
“What we practice at the small scale sets the patterns for the whole system.”
adrienne maree brown, Emergent Strategy
We build change at the scale of relationship: rooted in place, governed with community, and connected across communities.