About the Founder

 
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Nourish Botanica is a food, floral, and wellness co. offering dried + fresh flowers, houseplants, smoothies, and fruit cups through thoughtfully designed pop-ups and experiences across Atlanta. Our work brings fruits and plants to the forefront in a fresh, approachable way, pairing nourishing bites with botanicals.

We partner with organizations, venues, and creative teams to create well-executed experiences that feel fresh, inviting, and intentionally designed.

 
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Nourish Botanica’s Coconut Curry Soup, vegan-based ingredients made with locally grown veggies produced by Black farmers.

 
 

About the founder.

Quianah Upton, founder, food access advocate and programming director of Nourish Botanica, is an Atlanta based ecosystems builder creating spaces for healing, curiosity and impact. Through Nourish Botanica, she gathers flowers, plants, food and people together as an artist & spatial designer.

She is Caribbean, originally from the Virgin Islands and South Florida, that informs her love of lush, emotive communal green spaces. Quianah is an army brat and part of her childhood was spent growing up in a food insecure neighborhood in South Florida. 

She has worked in sales management for 10 years followed by 12 years of art, agriculture, food and creative event planning and programming. Her creative approach displays a combination of these disciplines with a focus on cultural integrity, historical context and greenspace.

Art Exhibitions

  • If I Told You, Artist and Curator, 2019

  • Her Ritual at the WISH Gallery, Artist, 2018

  • Signs of Solidarity, Living Walls, 2017 & 2018

  • Hambidge Hive at Colony Square, Corner Store Pop Up, Artist and Curator, 2017

  • ELEVATE Atlanta, Curatorial Assistant, Living Walls, 2016

  • Central Atlanta Progress’s Streetcar PopUps, Gallery and Curator, 2014

  • Black Art Renaissance, City Of Ink, Chilly-O, Miami Art Basel, 2013

Festival and Event Creations

  • SESSIONS Open Mic, 2023

  • Black Girl Plant Fest, Nourish Botanica, 2023-present

  • Friends and Neighbors, Art On The Atlanta Beltline, 2019

  • Simmer Down Picnic, Arts Exchange, 2016-2018

  • bEarthday Fest, 2017

  • Vintage In The Village, 2018

  • Alchemy ATL, Sweet Auburn, 2016

  • ThinkShop, Interior Design Workshop, 2014

  • Threadcount ATL, 2013

Guardian of Sanctuary, Vessel of the Living Water