OAKLAND, Calif. - A growing army of volunteers has been taking part in an organic, grassroots effort to help feed the hungry by stocking refrigerators placed at various locations in the East Bay.

They’re called Town Fridges, with half a dozen that have popped up around Oakland and in Berkeley.

The fridges are filled with donated food from community members.

As part of that effort, a group of about 50 volunteers who call themselves "Love Bite Bakers" has now mobilized to help stock those refrigerators, making hundreds of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches a week.

The backstory:

The founders of the volunteer group, husband and wife team Susan Ireland and Charlie Vincent, first began their work back in 2018, with the simple idea of baking cookies out of their Kensington home kitchen to

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