Project 40 is a dream project. In 2025 I found a small parcel of land near Highway 40 in North Nashville. This highway like many others split a thriving, historically Black community in two in the name of "progress". North Nashville is considered a food desert. 

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Highway 40 uses Sound Walls to offset noise pollution, these walls also act as physical barriers separating the highway from the embankments near homes. Project 40 aims to use the embankments along highways to create food forests. 

 

The lot I was originally looking at was located on Booker Street less than half a mile from Fisk University and Tennessee State University and a five minute walk to Hadley Park (where the first Wildflower Project was installed). The lot sold to an investor, I am in search of a similar lot. In addition to a community garden, I aim to build a small shipping container home, a community art gallery, and a fruit stand that could be run by local teens after school. Community organizers and organizations that are committed to seeing Project 40  bloom, we just need a plot of land. 

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Mel Chin's research from Revival Field would be implemented to help clean the soil from the harsh pollutants that come off the interstate. 

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Interested in funding this project? Please send me an email at DanielleNicholeMyers@gmail.com.