2025-05-06T13:01:09-07:00 2024-12-31 860553260 Janice Moen CPA 12 Vista Drive Hooksett NH 03106 990 2024-01-01 260645372 The Gardens Edge Inc GARD 5059488398 PO Box 7758 Albuquerque NM 87194 Jesse Daves President 2025-05-06 true true Janice Moen CPA P01206712 5052502231 X 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Jesse Daves PO Box 7758 Albuquerque NM 87194 134259 false X www.GardensEdge.org X 2007 NM The Gardens Edge supports sustainable agriculture, micro-enterprise, and education in rural communities in order to revitalize cultural knowledge and improve economicwell-being by teaching home gardening, soil conservation, seed saving, small-business management , and working with schools to help start gardens and teach environmental education. For our nutrition project we we teach moms about proper nutrition, access children with malnutrition and teach healthy recipes, and gardening. 3 3 1 35 0 154090 134165 0 153 94 28 0 154271 134259 82899 105855 0 15549 17924 0 3157 64027 57026 162475 180805 -8204 -46546 595872 629913 198 232 595674 629681 X The Gardens Edge supports sustainable agriculture, micro-enterprise, and education in rural communities in order to revitalize cultural knowledge and improve economic well-being. false false 50645 50645 Qachuu Aloom works with 500 Mayan families in Guatemala. Our grant goes to support gardening, seed saving, nutrition, and maternal health services and workshops, including home visits to these families. The 500 families live in 24 different villages, and each family receives workshops and home visits from Qachuu Alooms field team, as well as access to other special educational workshops and help marketing their crop and seed surplus. Mothers and their children in our maternal health project receive monthly health assessments from a nutritionist, vitamin supplements, hygiene cooking and gardening classes. Serving 500 families. 47849 47849 Sand Dam: This project is building two Sand Dams to their second stage, to bring water to 525 Mayan families in Guatemala. We are also doing continued reforestation on hillsides around the dam. Serves 525 households. 28971 7361 Traditional Medicine: This program helps train and support Maya women to learn traditional healing with medicinal plants, midwifery, and other healing modalities to offer holistic approaches to maternal health, emotional wellbeing, and other health issues. Serves 100 22363 Seed Travels Project: The project is an exchange between farmers from Guatemala, NM, Arizona and California, and New York State. We plant Amaranth seeds with partner gardens and host events at the gardens throughout the growing season. This year we had 7 gardens with an average of 30 people at each event. 9928 Cultural Exchange 5519 Farmer to Farmer: Mayan farmers visited New Mexico and California to share their stories with churches, community groups and other farmers. This visit is cross-cultural learning experiences that benefit the Mayan visitors as well as the US hosts, and people who attend workshops and talks. Serving 500. 3268 Ancestral Skills workshops provide opportunities for youth and their families to learn ancestral skills from elders. We facilitate workshops in a variety of skills such as pottery, basket making, fiber arts, archery, and woodworking. Students learn skills that are often at risk of disappearing. These experiences help deepen our relationships to the plants around us by learning we can create and transform them into tools, medicines containers and clothes. Serves 40. 253 J Agricultural program - This program offers opportunities for residents of Albuquerque to participate in gardening events throughout the season. The community is invited to learn to plant , water with traditional acequia systems and harvest at the end of the season. Serves 80. Education - This program offers educational opportunities to Mayan students who would not otherwise have the opportunity to continue their study. Specifically focuses on opportunities like, cultural preservation, native language, organizational development. 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Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 2 Jesse Daves and Sara Montgomery are married. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b The Form 990 is reviewed by all board members before filing. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c The Garden's Edge has a conflict of interest policy which includes having all newboard and committee members sign an acknowledgement they have read and understoodthe policy. All board and committee members are required annually and in writing todisclose all businesses or other organizations of which the member or leader, or amember of his family, is an officer, member, owner, or employee; or for which themember or leader, or a member of his family, acts as an agent; or from which themember or leader, or a member of his family, receives compensation or remunerationof any sort, with which The Garden's Edge competes or with which The Garden's Edgehas, or might reasonably in the future enter into, a relationship or a transaction.The Garden's Edge also has a policy directing the Board Chair and other BoardMembers on how to disclose a potential conflict of interest when issues arediscussed or voted on, which includes disclosure and the party removing themselvesfrom the meeting during discussion and vote. The policy directs the board orcommittee to seek alternates to the proposed transaction so as not producing aconflict of interest unless a more advantageous transaction or arrangement is notreasonably possible. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15a The board of directors reviews the executive director's salary annually anddocuments the review in the minutes of the board. The Executive Director is the only employee. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 Governing documents, policies, financial statements and the IRS Form 990 are madeavailable to the public upon request within three working days of the date therequest was made.