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Celebrate Community with Films that Explore Sustainable Food
Annual SSAWG Conference Features Film Night at CreateHere & green|spaces

CreateHere is pleased to partner with the Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group (SSAWG) and green|spaces to present a “A Night of Foodie Flicks” on Friday, January 22. Hosted in conjunction with SSAWG’s annual conference—held in Chattanooga for the second year in a row—this event aims to create a dialogue between the 1500+ conference attendees and the Chattanooga public using films, food and libations.

Chattanooga’s food economy is a fascinating, vibrant one. The local food economy here is unique not only in flavor, but in the intimate connections that exist between those involved. The SSAWG film night is an opportunity to showcase our community, bringing local foodies, food producers, residents, and regional talents together to celebrate our sustainable foods.

The film night runs from 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm, with both short and feature-length films to be screened at CreateHere and green|spaces.

Short films include:

Buttermilk: It Can Help Knoxville’s Earl Cruze, proprietor of Cruze Family Dairy, extols the virtues of buttermilk. It might not solve all the world’s problems, but it can make a big dent.
Hush Hoggies Hush A look at Tom Johnson’s famous praying pigs, circa 1978.
Greenhorns Get to know a growing and diverse network of young farmers—scrappy, resourceful, and adaptive.
The Adventures of the Big Bad Chef Like a lot places in the Mississippi Delta, the Bourbon Mall serves hot tamales, but so far they’re the only folks with enough guts to deep-fry them. Follow the Big Bad Chef on a deep-fried detour through the Secret South.
Every Third Bite Two years ago, honeybees started disappearing: about one in every three colonies left their hive never to return. Every Third Bite attempts to discover what plagued these hives.
Smoke & Ears Smoke & Ears tells the story of the Big Apple Inn in Jackson, Mississippi. Known as “Big John’s” by its faithful customers, the Big Apple Inn’s defining duo of pig ear sandwiches and hot smoked sausage sandwiches (known as “smokes”) has kept folks coming back again and again for over 70 years, and counting.
Mutton: The Movie Visit the northwestern corner of Kentucky, where descendants of the Welsh who originally settled the banks of the Ohio River don’t count sheep; they barbecue them.

Feature-length films include:

Fresh Fresh celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Each has witnessed the rapid transformation of our agriculture into an industrial model, and confronted the consequences: food contamination, environmental pollution, depletion of natural resources, and morbid obesity. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food and our planet.

Home Grown Home Grown follows the Dervaes family, who run a small organic farm in the heart of urban Pasadena, California. While “living off the grid”, they harvest over 6,000 pounds of produce on less than a quarter of an acre, make their own bio diesel, power their computers with the help of solar panels, and maintain a website that gets 4,000 hits a day.

This event is free and open to the public. For more information on SSAWG, visit them online at http://www.ssawg.org/. For details about this event, contact Veronique Bergeron via email at veronique@createhere.org, or by phone at (423) 648-2195.