2017-04-25T12:54:51-07:00 2016-12-31 JANICE MOEN 12228 YELLOWSTONE DR NE ALBUQUERQUE NM 87111 990 2016-01-01 260645372 The Gardens Edge Inc GARD 5059488398 980 Cypress Rd Bosque Farms Bosque Farms NM 87068 Jesse Daves President 2017-04-25 true Janice Moen CPA P01206712 5052502231 X 2016 2022-09-23 18:48:47Z Jesse Daves 980 Cypress Rd Bosque Farms NM 87068 161281 false 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 economic well-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, asses children with malnutrition and teach healthy recipes, and gardening. 3 2 1 10 0 91800 156437 11676 0 33843 4844 -50 137319 161231 72425 93553 0 14000 15836 0 2648 33643 46786 120068 156175 17251 5056 313444 318495 267 313444 318228 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 103953 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. 22893 Farmer to Farmer: Mayan farmers visited New York, New Mexico and California to share their stores 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. 12332 Amaranth Gardens: We established 7 Community garden plots, and held workshops with each group on Nutrition, planting, and seed saving. Some workshops included pottery making, and painting with children. Four gardens were built in Los Angeles, one with the Pauite Tribe in Bishop CA, and two in Northern New Mexico. We also taught seeds saving workshops in northern California and Albuquerque. 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Form 990, Part III, Line 4d: Other Program Services Description OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: Amaranth Gardens: We established 7 Community garden plots, and held workshops with each group on Nutrition, planting, and seed saving. Some workshops included pottery making, and painting with children. Four gardens were built in Los Angeles, one with the Pauite Tribe in Bishop CA, and two in Northern New Mexico. We also taught seeds saving workshops in northern California and Albuquerque. Serving 400 people. Form 990, Part VI, Line 2: Description of Business or Family Relationship of Officers, Directors, Et Jesse Daves and Sara Montgomery are married. Form 990, Part VI, Line 11b: Form 990 Review Process The Form 990 is reviewed by all board members before filing. Form 990, Part VI, Line 12c: Explanation of Monitoring and Enforcement of Conflicts The Garden's Edge has a conflict of interest policy which includes having all new board and committee members sign an acknowledgement they have read and understood the policy. All board and committee members are required annually and in writing to disclose all businesses or other organizations of which the member or leader, or a member of his family, is an officer, member, owner, or employee; or for which the member or leader, or a member of his family, acts as an agent; or from which the member or leader, or a member of his family, receives compensation or remuneration of any sort, with which The Garden's Edge competes or with which The Garden's Edge has, 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 Board Members on how to disclose a potential conflict of interest when issues are discussed or voted on, which includes disclosure and the party removing themselves from the meeting during discussion and vote. The policy directs the board or committee to seek alternates to the proposed transaction so as not producing a conflict of interest unless a more advantageous transaction or arrangement is not reasonably possible. Form 990, Part VI, Line 15a: Compensation Review & Approval Process - CEO, Top Management The board of directors reviews the executive director's salary annually and documents the review in the minutes of the board. The Executive Director is the only employee. Form 990, Part VI, Line 19: Other Organization Documents Publicly Available Governing documents, policies, financial statements and the IRS Form 990 are made available to the public upon request within three working days of the date the request was made.