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...

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,...