Origins
Since our founding in 1987, NeighborWorks Sacramento has been serving Oak Park. Over the last 34 years, food security has consistently been a major challenge for residents. In 2010, we decided to address it. Working with community leaders, and the City of Sacramento, we opened the first Farmers Market in Sacramento to accept EBT as a form of payment.
But we didn’t stop there, we raised funds to institute a matching dollar program, so that for every EBT dollar a family spent on fresh foods, we matched a dollar. This doubled the buying power of families, putting more food on the table!
Over the last 11 years, the Oak Park Farmers Market has sold over 475,000 pounds of produce in it’s 11 year history, and served 12,000 EBT families. It has won several awards and recognitions, and in 2017 was recognized by the California State Senate of excellence in service.