SAFE Credit Union Grant Supports Community Gardens

Caterer Regina Range, owner of The Burnt Skillet, demonstrates how to pickle vegetables at a Mirasol Village Community Garden workshop in Oak Park.

Listen: Amanda Merz, Community Impact Manager with SAFE Credit Union.

Alchemist Community Development Corporation - SAFE awarded $5,000 to Alchemist CDC’s Community Gardens project to help purchase a solar-powered generator and other supplies to expand its program offerings in Sacramento’s River District and Oak Park. With the grant Alchemist CDC will be able to educate up to 200 families per year with healthy practices through gardening and tasting education and cooking lessons.

Alchemist CDC's Neighborhood Empowerment Manager Joe Robustelli conducts one of the many neighborhood garden workshops given by the nonprofit.