Alchemist CDC Updates

Thank you for attending Cider for a Cause!

Thanks to everyone who showed up on January 29th at Two Rivers Cider Company  to show your support for Alchemist CDC. We enjoyed hanging out with friends, listening to music, drinking awesome locally produced hard cider and eating delicious food from Slightly Skewed...

Alchemy Kitchen project highlighted in the Sacramento Bee

The Sacramento Bee published an article regarding our Alchemy Kitchen project. "A food business incubator, Douglas said, could help small farmers start or expand their output of value-added products, or the foodstuffs they make with the crops they harvest. It could...

Thanks for attending our Catalyst for Change fundraiser!

  Thank you to everyone for your generous support and for joining us at our Catalyst for Change event.     Sponsors Food Access Ally ($1000) California Medical Association UFCW Western States Council Hilary Haycock, Harbage Consulting Alchemist...

Market Match Spending on the Rise

Market Match is an incentive and bonus program offered to Calfresh food stamp recipients and it is the best way to make CalFresh dollars go further at the farmers’ market. When someone spends their CalFresh benefits at participating farmers’ markets, they receive...

CalFresh households benefit from EBT at local farmers markets

From 2009 to 2014, government assistance known nationally as Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) redemptions at farmers markets have grown by 350 percent. Locally, it is estimated that up to 200,000 CalFresh-eligible households in Sacramento, Yolo,...

What a difference a year makes!

Alchemist CDC has seen the number of CalFresh dollars spent at its markets rise from $15,204 in May 2015 to $16,763 in May 2016! Some specific markets have seen particularly impressive increases:           Market Name CalFresh Dollars Redeemed in May 2015 CalFresh...

Pansy Ave. Pocket Park?

[UPDATE] On Tuesday, May 3rd, on the Sacramento City Council approved a consent calendar vote on "Disposition of 3601 Pansy Avenue" to formally begin the process of transferring control of the lot to Alchemist CDC. We look forward to working with SHRA as we move...