The Project

Nourish(meant) is both a collection of projects and a belief. At its most basic, the idea is this: to run a garden and kitchen out of a biofuels vehicle and travel around America, feeding folks.

Three sub-projects comprise Nourish(meant):

• First, bodily nourishment, manifested as a container garden growing under plexiglas on top of a bus, a primitive kitchen, and the ongoing process of making and sharing food.
• Second is spiritual or creative nourishment:  We will exchange food for art objects, stories, personal histories, or other gifts, all of which can be documented for later exhibition.
• Third is mental nourishment:  knowledge about permaculture gardening, good nutrition, and Cradle to Cradle design, complete with an heirloom seed bank and a traveling biofuels education center.

With all of the aforementioned rolling on the four wheels of an old bus run on waste vegetable oil, and information on how to set up your own system, we seek to spread knowledge about sustainable transportation and home food cultivation.

The Vehicle

We intend to buy and retrofit a sturdy 14 passenger bus to become our home, garden, kitchen, work/artspace and education center.  Following the principles of permaculture, the bus will be designed so that everything we put in it will have three separate uses.

The Adventurers

We believe that relationships and community are where we start to change the world.

We love the rain.

Our favorite poet is e.e. cummings.

In some ways, we’re an unlikely pair.

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• emily corazon nelson
a product of the fine American South and an art student at the University of Virginia, emily seeks to push the boundaries of how art can engage in society.  she loves hiking, bluegrass music, barefootedness, babies, biking, and cooking.  she is the matriarch of the art student society, teaches an art class for charlottesville kids, and wishes she had time to read more poetry.

• graham evans
A recent UVa graduate, graham is thrilled for his second cross country journey – the first as a naïve lad of 18 with aspirations for a traveling sketch comedy show that once might have been found at avancalledbecky.com.  Dedicated to building community for the healing of the world, he believes in the power of story, lightheartedness and deep work in service together.  He loves street art, biking at night and the feel of good dirt.