Karrot

Karrot came out of the European foodsaving movement: volunteers rescuing surplus food needed to coordinate recurring pickups at real places, with trust-based membership and no money involved. The result generalizes startlingly well: groups (a block), places (the community fridge, the garden, the corner store that donates), recurring activities (Tuesday fridge cleaning, Friday stoop-sit), applications and trust karma instead of admin fiat, and discussion where the coordination happens.

It's MIT-licensed, community-governed through its own forum, very actively maintained, free to use on the hosted karrot.world instance, and self-hostable with Docker. Food-saving groups across Europe run on it daily — Gothenburg's Solikyl is the best documented.

Where most civic platforms assume a city, Karrot assumes exactly what a neighborhood is: a smallish group of semi-strangers building trust through recurring shared work.

Neighborhood remix: the general-purpose block engine — compost-hauling shifts, tool-library hours, fridge stewardship rotations — anywhere the unit of organizing is 'a recurring task at a real place, done by whoever signed up.'

Details

• maker: Karrot community (foodsaving worldwide lineage)
• hosted: free at karrot.world; self-hostable
• license: MIT
• repo url: https://codeberg.org/karrot/karrot-frontend
• remix idea: Recurring shared work at real places — the block as a Karrot group.
• practice kind: tool