2017-10-31T00:41:53-07:00 2017-06-30 990 2016-07-01 901026798 SIERRA HARVEST SIER 5302652343 313 Railroad Ave Ste 201 Nevada City CA 95959 Sandra Barrington Board President 5305751456 2017-11-02 12.199.130.92 2016 2021-01-29 14:40:06Z Sandra Barrington 313 Railroad Ave Ste 201 Nevada City CA 95959 842298 0 X www.sierraharvest.org X 2013 CA Sierra Harvest's mission is to educate, inspire, and connect Nevada County families to fresh, local, seasonal food. 8 8 15 258 0 0 485201 620245 153273 220255 139 330 1686 1468 640299 842298 0 0 0 0 306864 364067 0 0 108657 235819 307642 542683 671709 97616 170589 394351 565100 21051 21211 373300 543889 Sierra Harvest's mission is to educate, inspire, and connect Nevada County families to fresh, local, seasonal food. 0 0 137120 0 130266 FARM TO SCHOOL: The Farm to School Program is currently in twenty-two Nevada County schools and reaches over 6,700 students; 96% of the K-8 students in Western Nevada County. Sierra Harvest connects each school with a local farm partner. This farmer hosts farm field trips at their farms, provides produce for a weekly produce stand at the school, and comes into the classroom to share farming stories and activities with the kids. We also do monthly "Harvest of the Month" tastings of local, seasonal fruits and vegetables delivered to classrooms along with educator curriculum and a family newsletter. Our "Tasting Week" brings guest chefs from around the county into hundreds of classrooms to cook simple, seasonal meals. Our pre-and post-test survey data indicate that, of the students who participate in our Farm to School programming, 54% more students like the fruits and veggies they try during Harvest of the Month tastings than before the tasting, 80% more students can name a farmer, and 33%more students report that their families shop directly from farmers. 98476 0 36632 EDUCATIONAL FARMS: Sierra Harvest provides farm education for school age kids through our educational farm, The Food Love Project and by supporting garden education at schools. The Food Love Project is devoted to promoting nutrition education, food security, and community involvement in growing, harvesting, eating, and celebrating fresh food. The farm hosts experiential field trips, summer camps, service projects, U-pick, and community work days. The Food Love Project provides 5,000 hours of hands-on farm education through field trips, camps, and in-school visits. It provides educational services to at least 700 community members, with approximately 30% being at-risk youth and adults. The farm produces over 2,000 pounds of fresh vegetables that are planted and harvested by program participants. Sierra Harvest also supports garden education at Yuba River Charter school, Scotten and Lyman Gilmore schools. This includes developing garden curriculum, maintaining a school garden, teaching classes, leading field trips, and doing in-class garden lessons. 76873 0 80369 FARMER EVENTS: Sierra Harvest puts on a series of community events promoting local food and farms attended by over 1000 people each year. Ten farm potlucks feature a different farm every other week throughout the growing season and soup nights feature farm fresh soups and bread for family and community. Sierra Harvest also maintains a local food events calendar. Our events build the customer base and bring high quality education to Nevada County farmers and ranchers year round. The Sustainable Food and Farm conference is an annual regional conference designed to serve the educational needs of the local and regional sustainable farming community. The conference begins with a day of farm tours and a specialized hands-on workshop featuring a specific farming topic. It is followed by two days of presentations from nationally recognized speakers and afternoon breakout sessions for participants to ask questions and get advice. The conference also offers 20 workshop sessions on food and farming topics taught by local and regional experts in the field. The Sustainable Food & Farm Conference serves 550 people, including 85 farmers who received scholarships to attend. 72923 0 10090 SIERRA GARDENS: The Sierra Gardens program enhances health and food access by supporting families and community organizations in growing fruits and vegetables; providing garden beds plus two years of gardening and cooking classes, mentorship and starts. Since the program began, Sierra Harvest has supported 53 gardens and seen an 83% reduction in participants that had to regularly skip a meal. 68% of the program participants grew NONE of the produce their family ate before the program, and now 100% grow at least 25% of the produce their family eats. 54627 0 46793 FARM INSTITUTE: The Farm Institute is a new program in 2016 that works alongside farmers and ranchers to support an increase in sustainably grown fresh food in Nevada County. Our programs are designed to build the prosperity of ecologically sustainable producers, to increase the land in sustainable production, and to train more beginning farmers as our older generation of producers retires. Through our Farm Crew training program, we recruit, help place, and train beginning farmers in sustainable agriculture production. Farm Biz, a four-month business skill-building course, brings small business professionals and educators to our local farmers and ranchers. Our Land Match program works to connect sustainable farmers and ranchers with locally available agricultural land. 33844 0 23129 FOOD ADVOCACY: We engage in local, regional, and national policies that support just, sustainable food systems. The Nevada County Food Policy Council (NCFPC) was formed in March 2015 to foster collaboration among local food and farming individuals, businesses and organizations, set common goals and work together to maximize positive impacts on the food environment, human health and livelihoods in the community. The NCFPC is a member of the California Food Policy Council which allows us to weigh in on statewide food and farming policies that impact Nevada County. The NCFPC, made up of 55 local food and farming organizations, has embarked on a food system assessment to study the impacts of the current industrialized food system present in the county and invest in a more vibrant local food system built on a strong sense of community. 21097 0 19470 SCHOOL FOOD: Sierra Harvest, in collaboration with the current school meal provider, is working to incorporate more locally and regionally grown fresh foods into the school meal program. We do this through tastings, salad bars, California Thursday's promotion, supporting individual school districts with their goals to serve scratch cooked meals, and by connecting local farms to school meal providers. This year we supported the NJUHSD to provide scratch cooked school meals to the Nevada City School district by doing initial studies, building school support for the new meal program, helping develop a brand and marketing for the program as well as connecting the food services director with local farms to purchase from. 182491 0 99482 494960 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 49 0 1 15 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 X 8 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 CA X X Carlyle Miller 5302652343 313 Railroad Ave Ste 201 Nevada City CA 95959 Sandra Barrington Board President 1.5 0 X X 0 0 0 Ariel Lovett-King Board Vice-President 1 0 X X 0 0 0 Rita Coriell Board Treasurer 1.5 0 X X 0 0 0 Jennifer Singer Board Secretary 2 0 X X 0 0 0 Phil Turner Board Member 8 0 X 0 0 0 Kwong Chew Board Member 3 0 X 0 0 0 Karin Kaufman Board Member 2.5 0 X 0 0 0 Robert Thompson Board Member 0.5 0 X 0 0 0 Joy Castro-Wehr Student Rep non-voting 0 0 X 0 0 0 Malaika Bishop Co-Executive Director 33.5 0 X 53633 0 0 Aimee Retzler Co-Executive Director 33 0 X 52792 0 0 106425 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 176665 0 126499 317081 33933 620245 Program Sales/Fees 813410 80986 80986 0 0 Contract Revenue 813410 24918 24918 0 0 Program Specific Contributions 813410 112492 112492 0 0 Program Expense Reimbursements 813410 1859 1859 0 0 0 0 0 0 220255 330 0 0 330 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Rebates 813410 934 934 0 0 Admin Expense Reimbursements 813410 174 174 0 0 Misc Revenue 813410 360 360 0 0 0 0 0 0 1468 842298 221723 0 330 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 106425 56564 19429 30432 0 0 0 0 225896 159560 29370 36966 0 0 0 0 2100 876 518 706 29646 19807 4250 5589 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 500 0 500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 139257 124439 850 13968 2755 2755 0 0 14210 8311 965 4934 4019 2725 554 740 0 0 0 0 23504 16889 2024 4591 7779 7238 143 398 0 0 0 0 4871 4751 36 84 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2339 0 2339 0 19578 13062 5772 744 Produce (Vegetables and Fruit) 38428 37437 10 981 Farm & Garden Supplies 33576 30066 538 2972 Non-Farm Supplies 3981 3503 76 402 Equipment Rental & Maintenance 3820 1515 46 2259 9025 5462 672 2891 671709 494960 68092 108657 266619 134177 0 231372 103396 162116 5244 2247 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7752 7847 11693 5241 8791 6452 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2549 20889 394351 565100 1165 3902 0 0 12137 9019 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7749 8290 21051 21211 X 242323 392710 130977 151179 0 0 373300 543889 394351 565100 170589 0 0 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 X 302744 456580 485201 620245 1864770 0 302744 456580 485201 620245 1864770 615468 1249302 29 64 139 330 562 0 0 0 0 0 43822 58701 154959 221723 479205 2344537 X Schedule A, Part II, Line 10 2016_OTHER_INCOME($221,723Total)=Program Services ($220,255) + Miscellaneous ($1,468). 2015_OTHER_INCOME($154,959Total)=Program Services ($153,273) + Miscellaneous ($1,686). 2014_OTHER_INCOME($58,701Total)=Program Services ($58,027) + Miscellaneous ($674). 2013_OTHER_INCOME($43,822Total)=Program Services ($32,012) + Miscellaneous ($11,810). RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11693 5241 6452 0 0 0 0 6452 Refundable Deposits 1689 4 Rugs for Donated for Resale 19200 20889 0 Credit Cards Payable 2003 School Garden Cart Funds 6287 8290 Seeding Our Future 176665 176665 0 0 0 1152 3971 0 27490 0 0 176665 176665 0 0 0 1152 3971 0 27490 32613 -32613 Kwong Chew Board Member 400 Guest Chef Tasting Week-2 Schools 0 X 19200 Appraised Value X 1 2000 Blue Book Comp X 2 12733 Immediate Sale 0 0 1 0 Schedule M, Part I Column (b) reports the number of contributions, not the number of items received. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b FORM 990 REVIEW PROCESS: The 990 is reviewed by the Board of Directors prior to submission. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c EXPLANATION OF MONITORING AND ENFORCEMENT OF CONFLICTS: Board Members sign our conflict of interest policy when they join the board and it is filed. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15 COMPENSATION REVIEW AND APPROVAL PROCESS (CEO & TOP MANAGEMENT AND OFFICERS & EMPLOYEES): Executive Directors prepare a budget based on Non Profit Resource Center's "Compensation Guide for Northern CA" and the Board approves it. Board uses this guide to set the salaries of the Co-Directors. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 18 EXPLANATION OF OTHER MEANS FORMS AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC INSPECTION: Organization forms and documents are on file in the office and available upon request. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 OTHER ORGANIZATION DOCUMENTS PUBLICLY AVAILABLE: These policies are on file in our office, and are available upon request. Form 990, Part IX, Line 11g OTHER FEES FOR SERVICES (NON-EMPLOYEES): Administrative_Assistance_Total_($1,454)=Programs($1,233)+Management&Gov($194)+Fundraising($27) Cleaning_Service_Total_($959)=Programs($634)+Management&Gov($139)+Fundraising($186) Educator_Fees_Total_($26,124)=Programs($26,124)+Management&Gov($0)+Fundraising($0) Farm_Conference_Organizing/Speakers_Total_($11,729)=Programs($11,729)+Management&Gov($0)+Fundraising($0) Farm_To_School_Interim_Director_Total_($5,175)=Programs($5,175)+Management&Gov($0)+Fundraising($0) Food_Corps_Member_Fees_Total_($7,250)=Programs($7,250)+Management&Gov($0)+Fundraising($0) Food_Prep/Catering_Total_($12,025)=Programs($8,108)+Management&Gov($8)+Fundraising($3,909) Graphic_Design_Total_($4,406)=Programs($2,870)+Management&Gov($269)+Fundraising($1,267) IT_Fees_Total_($201)=Programs($145)+Management&Gov($24)+Fundraising($32) Legal_Fees_Total_($870)=Programs($870)+Management&Gov($0)+Fundraising($0) Liaison_Fees_Total_($34,800)=Programs($34,800)+Management&Gov($0)+Fundraising($0) Writing_Total_($928)=Programs($613)+Management&Gov($135)+Fundraising($180) Videographers_Total_($1000)=Programs($0)+Management&Gov($0)+Fundraising($1000) Professional_Fees_Other_Total_($25,750)=Programs($24,888)+Management&Gov($81)+Fundraising($781) TOTALS($139,257)=Programs($124,439)+Management&Gov($850)+Fundraising($13,968)