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Marigold Farms Inc

Grow-Forage-Create

Frazier Park, CA   |  https://www.marigoldfarmsinc.org

Mission

Marigold Farms Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Our mission is to provide free seedlings, workshops, and homesteading build projects that benefit the community on three levels: economic, educational, and wellness.

Ruling year info

2019

Board President

Gisa Seeholzer

Main address

2520 Glacier Dr

Frazier Park, CA 93225 USA

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EIN

84-2954987

NTEE code info

Agricultural Programs (K20)

Garden Club, Horticultural Programs (C42)

Community, Neighborhood Development, Improvement (S20)

IRS filing requirement

This organization is required to file an IRS Form 990-N.

Communication

Blog

Programs and results

What we aim to solve

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Marigold Farms Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Our mission is to contribute regeneratively grown produce, herbal remedies, and seedlings which provide economical, health, and educational benefits to the local community.  There are a number of issues that face our community especially the health and wellbeing of all. We are looking to provide organic produce and seedlings to families, schools, and local nonprofits, but we want to encourage and support self-sufficient living.

Our programs

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?

Grow

The Grow program is focused on organic regenerative farming and growing edible native plants. This program grows organic seedlings for communities in Ventura, Los Angeles, Kern, and Santa Barbara counties and offers free workshops. Our workshops focus on turning your backyard, community garden, or school into a food forest. Again, these workshops are 100% free to homesteading groups, gardening clubs, nonprofits, and educational institutions (schools and libraries).

Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Adults
Economically disadvantaged people

The Forage program is an outdoor nature inspired program for adults and youth to learn more about their native edible plants. This program goes over how to consciously forage and identify plants and their uses (culinary, medicinal, and more). This program also discusses how grounding, earthing, and forest bathing can benefit your health.
Our forage program occurs in Ventura, Los Angeles, and Santa Barbara Counties. The program is free to all homesteading groups, garden clubs, nonprofits, and educational institutions (schools and libraries). If your group is interested in a free workshop, please click the link below to send a request form.

Population(s) Served
Adults
Children and youth
Economically disadvantaged people

The Create program is our homesteading program. We offer workshops on the following: canning, fermenting, small animal husbandry, carpentry, natural dyes, zero waste household, alternative energy, emergency preparedness at home, and much more. This is our favorite program because we all learn how to use our creative skills as a community as well as encourage a self-sufficient lifestyle.
This program is free to homesteading groups, garden clubs, nonprofits, and educational institutions (schools and libraries). If you are interested in a Create Program Workshop please click the link below and send in your request.

Population(s) Served
Adults
Children and youth
Economically disadvantaged people

Where we work

Our results

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.

Number of participants attending course/session/workshop

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Population(s) Served

Adults, Homeless people, Children and youth

Related Program

Grow

Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Holding steady

Context Notes

It helps to know how many participants we have attending our workshops as well as volunteering. The number of participants allowed us to gauge the need of our programs.

Number of participants engaged in programs

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Population(s) Served

Adults, Economically disadvantaged people, Children and youth

Related Program

Grow

Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Holding steady

Context Notes

It is important to know the number of participants in our programs from those volunteering to those who are receiving produce. It helps us to evaluate a need for the program.

Number of participants who would recommend program to others

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Population(s) Served

Adults, Homeless people, Veterans

Related Program

Grow

Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Increasing

Context Notes

It helps to know how many of our volunteers are reaching out to those in our community and talking about the program. It helps us to increase volunteer participation.

Pounds of produce grown

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Related Program

Grow

Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Increasing

Our Sustainable Development Goals

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

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Goals & Strategy

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.

Charting impact

Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.

In the past year, Marigold Farms has faced a major change when we had to move the farm to a new and permanent location. The new location meant a change in altitude, growing environment, and loss of animal access. However, we gained the beauty of the mountains, forests, and all the wondrous creatures that inhabit the area. After much consideration we decided to restructure ourselves to work with our surroundings and develop programs that include growing edible natives, foraging the local area, and being more creative with our homesteading.

We are hoping to provide online workshops, in person workshops, nature hikes, and more to the community.

Through the support of our community and foundation grants, we hope to provide all seedlings and produce free of charge to the local community. We also want to collaborate and work with local foragers, survival specialist, and homesteading enthusiasts to provide an educational environment and community that supports one another.

The most effective way of succeeding as a nonprofit is the strength and commitment of your leadership. Our leadership team is made of diverse and strong leaders with backgrounds in regenerative agriculture and nonprofit management. We hope that as our team grows we can add more to the development and organizational aspects of our nonprofit.

Currently, we are very well connected within the nonprofit and agricultural industries within Southern California. These connections are important as they bring together a supportive community that can help guide and advise us through our journey.

Since the beginning of the Covid pandemic, Marigold Farms has supported schools, families, and local nonprofits with seedlings to grow healthy organic produce to the community.

In the past year, Marigold Farms has faced a major change when we had to move the farm to a new and permanent location. The new location meant a change in altitude, growing environment, and loss of animal access. However, we gained the beauty of the mountains, forests, and all the wondrous creatures that inhabit the area.

Our Grow-A-Garden program has been our biggest success today and we want to continue to provide growing seedlings for the community. A greenhouse will allow us to grow five times more seedlings than we have in the past. This means we are able to support more communities. Our reach includes the following areas; North LA County, Ventura County, Santa Barbara County, San Luis Obispo County, and Kern County.

Through the support of our community and foundation grants, we hope to provide all seedlings and produce free of charge to the local community. We also want to collaborate and work with local foragers, survival specialist, and homesteading enthusiasts to provide an educational environment and community that supports one another.

How we listen

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.

done We demonstrated a willingness to learn more by reviewing resources about feedback practice.
done We shared information about our current feedback practices.

  • How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?

    To inform the development of new programs/projects, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve

  • Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?

  • What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?

    It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback, It is difficult to find the ongoing funding to support feedback collection, It is difficult to identify actionable feedback

Financials

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Operations

The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.

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Marigold Farms Inc

Board of directors
as of 01/21/2024
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
Board co-chair

Gisa Seeholzer

Marigold Farms Inc.

Term: 2019 -


Board co-chair

Sophie Seeholzer

Marigold Farms Inc

Term: 2019 -

Charlotte Haggin

Marigold Farms Inc

Board leadership practices

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

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  • Board orientation and education
    Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes
  • CEO oversight
    Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Not applicable
  • Ethics and transparency
    Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes
  • Board composition
    Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes
  • Board performance
    Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Not applicable

Organizational demographics

SOURCE: Self-reported; last updated 1/21/2024
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Leadership

The organization's leader identifies as:

Race & ethnicity
Multi-Racial/Multi-Ethnic (2+ races/ethnicities)
Gender identity
Female
Sexual orientation
Decline to state
Disability status
Decline to state

Race & ethnicity

Gender identity

Transgender Identity

Sexual orientation

No data

Disability

No data

Equity strategies

Last updated: 11/04/2019

GuideStar partnered with Equity in the Center - an organization that works to shift mindsets, practices, and systems to increase racial equity - to create this section. Learn more

Data
  • We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
Policies and processes
  • We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.