Media Requests
Please submit all media inquiries, interview requests, invitations to speak, etc., to media@alchemistcdc.org
In addition to our team’s responsiveness and availability to respond to media requests about our work, our Sacramento-based team has expertise, experience, and insight to share about a broad range of topics including but not limited to:
- SNAP, EBT, CalFresh, Nutrition Incentives
- Farmers’ Markets, California farmers, Small farms, Local Farms
- Food Entrepreneurship, Small Business
- Community Gardens, Gardening
- Food Security, Food Deserts, Food Insecurity, Grocery Access
- Volunteering, Nonprofits, Charitable Giving
- Food Policy, Local Food Systems
- Inclusive Economic Development, Workforce Development
- Electric Commercial Kitchens, Restaurant Electrification, Energy Efficiency, Sustainable and Green Design
- Place-making, Third Places, Community Development, Place-based Interventions
- Social Justice, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Commercial Kitchens, Commissary Kitchens, Food Safety
- Hospitality and Food Service
- Sacramento’s River District, Downtown Sacramento, Oak Park, City of Sacramento, County of Sacramento, Rancho Cordova, Elk Grove
Past Media Coverage
- June 3, 2025, Sacramento Observer: Area Food Enthusiast Cherishes Role As Burger ‘King’ | Rodney Blackwell Looks To Catch Up, Become Go-To Spot For Burgers With Help From A Nonprofit That Supports Food Business Owners
- May 20, 2025, Sacramento Bee: A Sacramento nonprofit is taking the helm at Empress Tavern on The Kay downtown
- May 14, 2025, Sacramento Business Journal: Redefining the Core 2025: Railyards and River District construction projects
- May 12, 2025, Sacramento Press: Metro Chamber Foundation Announces 2025 Leadership Sacramento Class Project Recipient – Alchemist CDC
- May 4, 2025, KCRA 3: Meadowview farmers’ market reopens in Sacramento, offering fresh produce and resources
- May 1, 2025, Comstock’s Magazine: This Time, Donations May Not Be Enough
- May 1, 2025, KCRA 3: Big Day of Giving: 850 Sacramento-area community groups ask people to ‘give where their heart is’
- April 30, 2025, Sacramento Bee: Meadowview Certified Farmers Market is back for the season. Here’s when and where
- April 29, 2025, Fox 40: Meadowview Certified Farmers Market reopening announced
- April 3, 2025, Sacramento Observer: What’s next for Sacramento’s Promise Zone as federal designations expire
- Feb 27, 2025, Business Wire: Tri Counties Bank Awards $260,000 in Economic Development Grants to Assist with Business Entrepreneurship and Housing Stabilization
- Jan 12, 2025, CBS13: Dine Downtown is Underway
- Jan 10, 2025, YES! Magazine: Farmers Markets Can Be a Form of Climate Action. Here’s How.
- Jan 9, 2025, KCRA3: $45 three-course dinners: See the list of Sacramento ‘Dine Downtown’ restaurants, menus
- Dec 2024, Sacramento Press: Restaurants Announced and Menus Released for 20th Year of Sacramento’s Restaurant Week Dine Downtown
- Dec 26, 2024, Here is Oregon: Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation awards grants to 78 nonprofits to close out 2024 Community Grants Program
- Dec 13, 2024, CBS13: Sacramento area farmers markets closed Saturday over wind concerns
- Nov 19, 2024, Sacramento Business Journal: Formal Alchemist Public Market plan submitted for Sacramento’s River District
- Nov 12, 2024: ABC10: Central Shop District, Alchemist Public Market planned for the Railyards
- Sept 5, 2024: Sacramento Bee: Sacramento is building more community gardens. Who will take care of them?
- June 25, 2024: Sacramento Bee: Meadowview farmers’ market combats South Sacramento’s food desert, brings community together
- June 9, 2024, ABC10: $500,000 in funding was presented to help launch the Meadowview Farmers’ Market
- June 6, 2024, ABC10: Meadowview Certified Farmers Market debuts this weekend. Here’s what to know
- May 31, 2024, Sacramento Bee: Is it OK if I bring my dog to the farmers market? Here’s what California law allows
- May 29, 2024, Sacramento Business Journal: New Helvetia Brewing Co. partnering with nonprofit business incubator Alchemist CDC on new food program
- May 8, 2024, Sacramento Bee: New weekend farmers market will open in Sacramento
- March 6, 2024, Comstock’s Magazine: The River District celebrates 25 years of impactful community growth and innovation
- April 30, 2024, Sacramento Press: With Fresh Produce and Hot Lunch, Weekly Certified Farmers’ Markets Return to Downtown Sacramento
- April 24, 2024, ABC10: Nonprofit’s storage container stolen from Sacramento farmers market site
- March 13, 2024, CapRadio: Alchemist Public Market planned for Sacramento’s River District
- March 8, 2024, Sacramento Bee: Longtime Sacramento-area farmers market moves — and changes operators
- Oct 12, 2023, Sacramento Business Journal: Alchemist Public Market gets more funding for River District project
- Aug 18, 2023, ABC10: Families in need can now get more free money for fresh food
- May 26, 2023, Sacramento Business Journal: Alchemist Public Market project in River District gets $7.8 million in state funding
- May 18, 2023, CapRadio: As Sacramento summer heat approaches, unhoused people, housing advocates call for support
- May 12, 2023, Sacramento Business Journal: Redefining the Core 2023: Railyards/River District construction projects
- April 2023, Sacramento Magazine: A Culinary Campus for Food Startups
- March 3, 2023, CapRadio: CalFresh emergency benefits end this month — here’s what to know
- August 30, 2022, Sacramento Observer: All in the Family – Two Black Mothers Turn Baking Into Business and a Valuable Education Tool
- July 29, 2022, Comstock’s Magazine: Street Food Offers a Road to Success
- March 4, 2022, Edible Sacramento: Alchemist CDC works to ensure healthy food, entrepreneurial opportunities, and the bounty of our region are available to every Sacramentan
- July 30, 2021, Sacramento Business Journal: Public market project planned in Sacramento’s River District
- July 28, 2021, Comstock’s Magazine: Meal Prep Entrepreneurs Saw Big Growth — and Challenges — During the Pandemic
- June 7, 2021, CapRadio: ‘Food Hubs’ In Sacramento’s Low Income Neighborhoods Could Combat Hunger, Support Entrepreneurs
- June 2, 2021, Fox40: Sacramento selected to develop healthy food hubs in disadvantaged neighborhoods
- June 1, 2021, Puget Sound Business Journal: Spotlight on a Sacramento entrepreneur’s secret sauce for persevering
- December 10, 2020, Comstock’s Magazine: Brand of Brothers
- November 6, 2020, This is Reno: Making his lemonade: The calm busy life of Pharoah
- September 21, 2020, Comstock’s Magazine: Keeping It in the Community Grassroots efforts feed some of SCUSD’s most vulnerable families during the pandemic
- September 16, 2020, Access Sacramento: Live Wire with Alchemist CDC
- December 13, 2019, Comstock’s Magazine: Incubating Ideas, Hatching Success Alchemist Microenterprise Academy graduates its first cohort of food entrepreneurs
- November 25, 2019, Sacramento Bee: Want to express yourself through art? Oak Park puts up a spray paint wall for all
- September 27, 2019, Next City: Making Sacramento the “Farm-to-Every-Fork” Capital These California organizations are expanding access to healthy food.
- August 16, 2019, Fox40: Studio40 Live: Alchemist Microenterprise Academy Graduates
- June 5, 2019, CapRadio: Sacramento’s First Edible Art Garden Could Soon Pop-Up In Oak Park — And Grow Into A Food Forest
- January 31, 2018, Comstock’s Magazine: Oak Park Wins the Bulk of the 2017 Creative Economy Grant for Food-related Projects
- November 18, 2016, Sacramento Bee: Sacramento nonprofit plans incubator to nurture food businesses
- October 29, 2014, Comstock’s Magazine: Healthy Options – Farmers markets and urban growers combat local food deserts
- May 23, 2013, Sacramento Press: Local Food Desert to Get Fresh Produce