Friday Night Dinner & Discussion at Sunflower Cafe, Additional Speakers and Sponsors Announced

Friday Night Dinner & Discussion at Sunflower CafeAdditional Speakers and Sponsors Announced for Second Annual Tennessee Local Food Summit Workshops for Backyard Gardeners, Eaters, Farmers, StudentsNashville, TN (October 29, 2012) - The new Sunflower Café will host the opening reception on Friday, November 30 at 6:00 p.m. Sunflower Café is a vegetarian, farm-to-table restaurant located at 2834 Azalea Place in Nashville’s Berry Hill neighborhood. The menu for the reception will also include dishes prepared by other Nashville restaurants that have a local food focus. Dinner will be followed by a panel discussion "Why Care About Local Food?"Tickets for Friday night activities are $20 or are included with a full conference registration to the Summit.A full day of workshops, two meals and an evening barn dance will be held the following day, Saturday, December 1, at Green Door Gourmet Meeting House, 7011 River Road Pike, Nashville. Organized by area sustainable farmers, the summit will once again be geared to home gardeners, farmers, students, consumers, and anyone interested in learning about local food and our local food system.The Turnip Truck Natural Food Markets and The Nashville Scene are sponsors for the weekend of events.Additional speakers include: Adam Turtle, gardener and re-knowned bamboo expert from Earth Advocates Research Farm; Susana Lein, permaculturalist of Salamander Springs Farm; John Patrick, adjunct professor at Lipscomb University; and Daron Joffe "Farmer D", eco-entrepreneur and biodynamic farmer. Previously announced speakers include author and speaker Hugh Lovel; Sandor Katz, author of The Art of Fermentation; Birke Baehr, internationally acclaimed youth advocate for local food and farming; Dodd Galbreath, Executive Director of Lipscomb University's Institute for Sustainable Practice; and Jeff Poppen, aka The Barefoot Farmer.Workshops on Saturday will include tracks on Building Healthy Soil, Organic Farming/Gardening, Marketing/Distribution, Cooking/Preservation featuring local chef demos. Plenty of time will be available for one-on-one discussions with the speakers and exhibitors.Dinner and a barn dance will be held on-site beginning at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday night.The conference fee includes locally grown and homemade meals. Each portion of the conference can be purchased separately or the entire conference as a package.Media inquiries, please contact: Lisa Shively, lisa@pressnetwork.com, 615-677-6645