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.

The Field & Kitchen crew lined up together

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.