Shout outs for all the folk who have given of themselves to make this project a reality and added their energy to its momentum.

• A huge thanks to the University of Virginia Student Sustainability Symposium!  Nourish(meant) placed fourth in the competition (behind some pretty amazing projects with which we are honored to be compared), winning us a small grant and a lot of fans.

• Thank you to the Center for Undergraduate Excellence at UVa for awarding Nourish(meant) with a 2009 Undergraduate Arts Award!  This grant will provide the foundational funding for the project, and we are so grateful!

• Thanks to Kennon Graves for hanging baskets and plants!

• Thanks to the Jeffries for Uncle Vernon’s heirloom tomatoes!

• Huge thanks to Lindsey Daniels for all her help and support!

• Thank you to Kerr and Roya Evans for their donation!

• Thank you to Amanda Lockhart for a super-comfy mattress!

• Thanks Sally Harrill for tons of nuts and bolts and an awesome sander!

• Thank you to Nancy Takahashi and Hereford College for help with WVO and the use of the Hereford centrifuge!  We really appreciate it.

• Thanks to Koichi Matsuda for several lovely plants.

• Thank you to Sid for our new home!

• Thanks to Dave Ray and Co. for some great mechanic work!

• Thanks to Stefin for making time to join in on and document the purchase of Sid!  We love you.

• Huge thank you to Mary from Windcrest Farm in NC for the great conversation, support, knowledge, and tiny bus-sized baby plant!  Visit her online at http://www.windcrestorganics.com/

• Thank you to Dane and Maria Fisher from Fisher Farms in NC for some great tomato plants, cucs, and chard- and thanks for putting us to work!  It felt great.  Check out http://www.fisherfarms1933.com/

• Thank you Cathy and Eric McCall for the herbs and support!

• Thanks to Teresa and Mitch at Meadowbrook Hardware for the generous donation of bolts, joints, and screws!

• Thank you so much to Paige from Blue Ridge Eco Shop in Cville- she’s given us the wood sealant we’ll use to protect our rooftop garden and kitchen chopping surfaces, without us having to worry about toxic chemicals leaching into our food.  Check out this shop; it’s really fun!

• Thanks to worm mama Jessalyn!

• Huge thank you to all of our wonderful friends who have come out on collaborative work days.  It is your enthusiasm that keeps this project going.

• Thank you to the Habitat Store for our sink, trunk, and planters!

• Thank you to Roundabout Farm for the eggplant!

• Thank you so much to Wendy and Rick Nelson of Gym Treasures for donating their printing services for the Nourish(meant) T-shirts, which will be printed on 100% recycled cotton!

• Huge thanks to Lee of Radical Roots Farm in Virginia for the gift of lettuce plants, borage, and various herbs!

• A GIGANTIC thank you to all our backers on Kickstarter.com!  Thank you for helping us raise $1,369!  Mark Williams, Wende Marshall, Dan and Tess Nelson, Joanne, Lisa, Yasminca, Theresa Larson, Alex Arango, Joshua Dumas, Jessie Reuteler, Brie, Mike LaFratta, Abby Ransler, Daniel Kenenshi, Ken Baumann, Ken Piller, GH Hovagimyan, Robert Spitzfaden, Stefin, Michelle, Jessica, Meredith, Bill Bennet and Elizabeth Schoyer, Michael Mahoney, Steph deWolfe, Charles Evans, Carrie Petersik, Kristin Dickie, Mohamed Sidki, Sarah Moseley, Rachel Lafaye, Joanne, Will Russell, and Barbara Lee.  We are SO grateful for your donations.

• Gracias to Nancy Lee Evans for some wonderful additions to our on-board library!

• Thank you so much to Bill Bennett, Eric Schmidt, and Elizabeth Schoyer for invaluable support of the project, welding lessons, and a great cooler!

• Thanks to the Scholarship Committee at UVa for a Small Travel & Research Grant.

• Thank you to Ed, Domer, Rick and everyone who supported us in Canton!

• Dustin, Erin, Sierra and Morgan for the oil and everything else.  You are amazing!

• The wonderful people of Wienkes market for the work they do, the land they cultivate, and food they share!

• Kathy and Rick for letting us stay at her house while we had the swine flu.

• Jessie for her hospitality in Chicago.

• The Sit Down Cafe for the oil they collected and donated to us!

• Jim and Newberry Place Cohousing Community for being amazing hosts while we attended artprize.

• Tim and Biodiesel for the donated oil.

• The Bridge Performing Arts Institute and Greg and Zach for hosting us at the Harvest Show.

• Wild Kenai Red Salmon for their smoked salmon and their support!