L.J. Abraham was thinking of the food deserts in Memphis when she posted on Facebook to ask friends if they would help her create a community refrigerator.

Four years later, 901 Community Fridges is exactly what it sounds like: an outdoor refrigerator open day or night, when feeding lines are closed or nothing’s open, to find home-cooked meals and perishables such as fruit or milk. 

What Abraham didn’t expect was the level of community that would form around a solitary refrigerator left chugging away in the elements.