Juliana Health Director - Paq'tnkek Community

Juliana beautifully describes the importance of a celebratory mother's day feast, her love of food both for simplicity and complex flavours with different dishes in a wonderful way. yes, actually [I do love food] and I am for one person I am tired for apologizing for that, I do love food, I genuinely do…” "In a first nations community that there is a lot of work being done on food security, just like any other first nation community all across Canada, they're all doing work on food security because they know it is an issue." “Green beans are meant to be sweet… I didn’t realize that until you know like an adult…  they are meant to be really nice and sweet they are really a sweet bean, and you don’t realize that until you grow it, pick it, taste it…” "My whole family was very very into it... they bought into the whole idea and I think that when I stopped buying into it, my family stopped buying into it... and that's a lesson for everybody is if you want your kids If you want your kids to be into certain type of things, know where their food comes from, and know what they're eating and stuff, you can't do that without you participating in it... it's different that's for sure." "we have a community feast every mother's day... it is a community gathering, it's people spending time together, it is people socializing, it's people chipping in and helping one another, it's mom's, it's the youth getting out and serving the mom's, it's the mom's to be getting used to the idea of coming to a mother's feast." “It’s a real enjoyable community mother’s day feast… it started out little and it grows.”