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Edible Garden

September 14, 2025

Tickets on sale now!

Please join us in celebrating 80 years at our annual roaming culinary adventure.

Explore our gardens enjoying delicious cuisine and libations from local chefs, wineries and purveyors. Enjoy botanical cocktails from the Garden, music, and an art walk. As the sun sets, your evening culminates with heartier tastings around beautiful tables, sweet treats and rock & roll, all among friends under the bistro lights.

Purchasing a table or tickets to this event helps support the Garden and maintain this community resource. Sponsors also gain exposure to an important audience of art and culture champions.

The deadline to be included on the invitation has extended to July 14.

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Proceeds from Edible Garden will:

Keep our gardens beautiful and free • Maintain our historic buildings • Fund the Garden School Financial Aid Program • Expand the Garden School patio play area • Allow us to broaden and expand programs and art exhibitions throughout the year for all

Enjoy scrumptious culinary tastings paired with libations from our local food and beverage sponsors:

Check back for new additions!

Table Sponsors

Tom & Jan Perry
Ned & Ellin Purdom
Stacy & Mark Nelson
Pat & Jay Cahill
June & John Sullivan
Katie & Max Eulenstein
Marcia & Michael Skall
Michael & Dudley Del Balso
Andy & Stephanie Evans
Meghan Laffey & John Stalder

Edible Garden Event Committee

Jennifer Ames
Nina Barry
Kendra Bolt
Amie Boswell-Kennett
Diane Doodha
Katie Eulenstein
Vanessa Famulener

Hilary Foster
Kate Gibson
Addison Iskow
Meghan Laffey
Stacy Nelson
Ali Stillman
Rebecca Sylla

Thanks to all sponsors:

Media Sponsors:

Check out photos from last year’s sold-out event!

30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd | PO Box 437 | Ross, CA 94957

415.455.5260

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Website funded by a generous gift from
Phoebe Cowles

IRS Guidelines for Gifts from Donor Advised Funds to Support MAGC Events
Thank you for your interest in giving to the Marin Art & Garden Center events from your Donor Advised Fund (DAF) or Family Foundation.
We sincerely appreciate your generosity and support!
To ensure your gift follows the current IRS guidelines for DAF/Family Foundation support of an event, we would like to share the below guidelines with you.
Raffle tickets, tickets to galas and other special events, auction items, and benefits conferred in connection with a DAF/foundation grant are not permitted.
IRS has specifically ruled that fair market value associated with fundraising events cannot be separated, a practice known as “bifurcation.”
For example, with Edible Garden, if the price of the ticket is $200 and the FMV fair market value (non-tax-deductible amount) is designated to be $50, the donor must pay from sources other than her DAF/foundation for the full value of the ticket ($200) and not just for the non-tax-deductible amount ($50).
We recommend you confer with your financial advisor to confirm if any of these examples of how donors may still use their DAF to support an event would work for you:
A donor could sponsor the event, and not attend, and pay fully out of the DAF/foundation.
A donor could sponsor the event using DAF/foundation funds and attend by purchasing an individual ticket through non-DAF/foundation funds.
A donor could sponsor the event, join the event as a guest of another donor/table guest, and pay fully out of the DAF/foundation.
A donor could sponsor the event and host the afforded number of people at their chosen level as long as they pay for the seats at the lowest ticket price ($200 for Edible Garden) outside of their DAF.
As an example, a $1,500 sponsor that covers 2 guests, could pay for their sponsorship with $400 from a different source of funds, and then give an additional gift of $1,100 out of their DAF.

Please email Tod Thorpe, Director of Development at tod.thorpe@maringarden.org to discuss your gift to Marin Art and Garden Center