Down2Earth 1.2 - T'Sou-ke Food Security
Summary
TLDRThe Souk Nation, once reliant on the Pacific's bounties, faced a dietary shift 150 years ago with the introduction of processed foods. Today, they strive to revert to their traditional seafood diet, complemented by organic vegetables and fruits grown in community greenhouses. The community supports its members with healthy food options, addressing health issues like diabetes and heart conditions. They aim to expand their greenhouse to feed the entire community and are also cultivating medicinal plants, teaching proper administration and storage. The visit concludes with a feast, highlighting the community's commitment to traditional food, solar energy, and harmony with nature.
Takeaways
- 🌊 The Souk Nation has historically relied on the Pacific Ocean and local water bodies for their food supply.
- 🍽️ A significant dietary shift occurred 150 years ago with the introduction of processed and refined foods.
- 🛑 The community is actively working to revert to their traditional seafood diet and grow organic produce.
- 🥗 They encourage the consumption of home-grown vegetables like lettuce for community meals.
- 🌱 The Souk Nation utilizes greenhouses to grow organic food, promoting health and sustainability.
- 🏥 Health issues such as diabetes, heart conditions, and high blood pressure are prevalent, and the community is addressing them through dietary changes.
- 👵 Elders are involved in the food production process, receiving baskets of fresh produce as a gesture of care.
- 🌱 Expansion plans include a larger greenhouse to increase food supply for the community members.
- 🌿 The community is also venturing into growing medicinal plants to educate members on their use.
- 🍅 Organic food is promoted over pesticide-laden alternatives, with an emphasis on self-sufficiency.
- 🍲 The community gathers for feasts that celebrate their traditional foods, including fresh vegetables and salmon.
- 🙏 The Souk Nation acknowledges the importance of their ancestral connection to the land and the need for harmony with nature.
Q & A
What significant change occurred in the Souk Nation's diet 150 years ago?
-The diet of the Souk Nation changed drastically 150 years ago with the introduction of processed and refined foods, deviating from their traditional diet that had relied on the rich bounty of the Pacific Ocean and nearby lakes and rivers for thousands of years.
What is the Souk Nation currently doing to reverse the trend of processed food consumption?
-The Souk Nation is working to reverse this trend by encouraging a return to a traditional seafood diet and by growing organic vegetables and fruits in their own greenhouse.
How does the Souk Nation involve community members in their food production?
-The Souk Nation involves community members by allowing them to pick their own lettuce from the greenhouse, providing them with the opportunity to learn how to grow their own food, and making baskets with produce to show them they can be self-sufficient.
What health issues are prevalent among the Souk Nation's community members, and how does the community address these?
-Health issues such as diabetes, heart conditions, and high blood pressure are prevalent among the community members. The community addresses these by encouraging the consumption of organic food grown in their greenhouse, which is free from pesticides.
What is the Souk Nation's plan for expanding their food production capabilities?
-The Souk Nation has plans to expand their food production by applying for a larger greenhouse, which is around 5 acres, to supply more food for their community members.
Why is organic food important to the Souk Nation's community?
-Organic food is important to the Souk Nation's community because it is healthier, free from pesticides, and encourages self-sufficiency, reducing their dependence on grocery stores.
What role does the Souk Nation's community smokehouse play in their food culture?
-The community smokehouse is used for gatherings, funerals, weddings, and tribal journeys, playing a central role in their food culture by providing a place to prepare and share traditional foods like salmon.
How does the Souk Nation incorporate traditional territory and culture into their current projects?
-The Souk Nation incorporates their traditional territory and culture into their projects by ensuring they are connected to their land, their cultural practices, and the food they eat, emphasizing the importance of growing their own food and living in harmony with nature.
What challenges is the Souk Nation facing regarding their traditional food sources, such as clams?
-The Souk Nation is facing challenges with their traditional food sources due to environmental issues such as septic fields, which have led to the clams being contaminated and therefore not safe to eat without proper treatment.
How does the Souk Nation view the connection between taking care of salmon and the overall health of their environment?
-The Souk Nation views the care of salmon as integral to the health of the environment, recognizing that the well-being of the salmon is connected to the health of the beaches and the air, reflecting a holistic approach to environmental stewardship.
What is the significance of the solar energy project to the Souk Nation, and how does it relate to their traditional lifestyle?
-The solar energy project is significant to the Souk Nation as it represents a step towards sustainability and self-reliance, aligning with their traditional values of living in harmony with nature and reducing dependence on external resources.
Outlines
🌊 Revival of Traditional Diet
The souk nation, which has thrived on the rich bounty of the Pacific Ocean and nearby lakes and rivers for thousands of years, experienced a significant dietary change with the introduction of processed and refined foods 150 years ago. Currently, the nation is working to revert to its traditional seafood diet and is also growing organic vegetables and fruits in their greenhouse. This initiative is crucial for the community, particularly for those with health issues such as diabetes, heart conditions, and high blood pressure. The community feeds its members and elders, and plans to expand with a larger greenhouse to support the whole community. The garden follows the health workers, providing fresh, organic food instead of pesticide-sprayed produce.
🌿 Embracing Organic and Medicinal Plants
In addition to organic vegetables, the souk nation is venturing into growing medicinal plants. They teach community members how to properly administer, dry, and store these plants. The community smokehouse plays a vital role during gatherings, funerals, weddings, and tribal journeys, where salmon, a traditional and healing food, is prepared. The visit concludes with a feast featuring fresh greenhouse vegetables and smoked salmon. The nation is also involved in a solar energy project, emphasizing their connection to traditional territory, culture, and food. They aim to reduce dependency on grocery stores, reclaim beaches for clam digging, and ensure the annual return of salmon, emphasizing the importance of taking care of nature and its resources.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Souk Nation
💡Traditional Seafood Diet
💡Greenhouse
💡Organic Vegetables and Fruit
💡Health Issues
💡Elders
💡Community Smokehouse
💡Medicinal Plants
💡Solar Energy Project
💡Salmon
Highlights
The Souk Nation has historically relied on the rich bounty of the Pacific Ocean and local water bodies for sustenance.
A drastic dietary change occurred 150 years ago with the introduction of processed and refined foods.
Efforts are being made to revert to a traditional seafood diet and organic vegetable and fruit cultivation.
Community members are encouraged to pick their own lettuce from the greenhouse.
The community feeds many people, including elders, through communal lunches and salads.
The community faces health issues such as diabetes, heart conditions, and high blood pressure.
Heel workers are employed to help community members learn to grow their own food.
Baskets of produce are provided to elders to demonstrate the feasibility of self-sufficiency in food production.
Plans for a larger 5-acre greenhouse to supply more food to the community are underway.
The community is promoting organic food to avoid the harmful effects of pesticides.
Medicinal plants are being cultivated to teach proper administration and preservation methods.
The community smokehouse is a central place for gatherings, funerals, weddings, and tribal journeys.
Salmon is considered a healing food and is integral to the community's traditional diet.
A feast with fresh vegetables and salmon is held to celebrate the community's efforts and welcome guests.
The Souk Nation is integrating a solar energy project to support sustainability and reduce dependence on external resources.
The community emphasizes the importance of living in harmony with nature and taking care of the environment.
Traditional food sources like clams are currently affected by environmental issues such as septic fields.
The community's well-being is connected to the health of the salmon population and the environment.
Transcripts
the souk nation has subsisted on the
rich Bounty of the Pacific Ocean and
nearby lakes and rivers for thousands of
years just 150 years ago this diet
changed drastically with the
introduction of processed and refined
Foods today the souk nation is working
to reverse this trend by encouraging the
return to a traditional Seafood diet and
by growing organic vegetables and fruit
in their own
Greenhouse would you like a garden salad
I'd love to try some of this so this is
green leaf lettuce and red leaf
lettuce you just go in there and break
off as much as you want so I understand
you guys feed a lot of people we do we
feed our community lunch people our
elders and people can come up and
they'll make a bowl of salad and they
just go crazy cuz they just fill it
right up this is lettuce here some too
this is red leaf lettuce and the more
you pick it the more it comes you just
get the little babies out of there and
it's so good okay I've never tried that
in my whole life so it's important to us
in our community because we have a lot
of band members that have health issues
they have diabetes they have heart
conditions they have high blood pressure
so they're in house all the time our
heel Worker Works to get them out and
our garden follows the heel workers we
give them food we we're showing them how
to grow their food we've made baskets
for them with uh tomatoes cucumbers
lettuce sweet peas and merry Golds and
this showed them that they could grow
their own food we gave them to the
elders and they thought that was really
nice I understand you have plans for
expanding in so that you can feed the
whole Community we've put in some
applications for a larger Greenhouse
it's around a 5 acre greenhouse and
that's going to supply a lot of food for
our members okay we'll go inside now for
some Tomatoes we've taught our people
that they can grow their own food
instead of going on the shelf and
getting food that's sprayed with
pesticides and such we're teaching them
that it's better for them to have
organic
food
so we got a few herbs in here but I
understand you're also uh branching out
into medicinal plant yes we are I'll
show you out here all
right in this box here is where we had
all the C so that canvas is a bulb so it
it's going to come up again it's a bulb
it's like a daffodil bulb and so what
kind of hopes do you have with the
medicine that you're planting we're
going to teach our members how to
administer it properly and how to dry
dry it properly and store
it do I get to try my wonderful salad
here well before you do that we have to
put you to work you have to earn your
food
here
okay I'm really looking forward to that
salad but I have to earn
it by hauling this Dirt
away so this is like a Community smok
House John yeah this is our community
Smoke House we have Gatherings we have
funerals weddings tribal Journeys when
all the canoes come here we we use this
quite a bit and so your people have
lived off of salmon for countless
Generations well I think it's it's it's
a very healing food do you mind if I uh
sample a little bit of it yeah you're
welcome
T that's really good our visit to the
souk nation is coming to an end but
before we leave we've been invited to a
feast complete with fresh vegetables
from the greenhouse salmon from The
Smokehouse and a warm welcome from the
people in the community
nation was chosen to help our people by
bringing into our
community the solar energy project as we
go forward from this day we
acknowledge
remember and give thanks to our
ancestors who lived and walked on this
Land one with nature in harmony with
Mother Earth and with all
creatures we put this project together
it's connected with our traditional
territory it's connected to our culture
it's connected to our kids it's
connected to the food we eat and and
that is is is growing our own food a
good way and be able to not have to be
dependent on a grocery store be able to
get our beaches back and be able to dig
our clams uh the way we used to cuz
right now it's uh we're in a time where
our clams have to be decorated because
of the housing situation where uh septic
fields uh play a part in uh us not
eating our traditional foods and then
also it's it's connected to our salmon
because we're depending on that salmon
to come back every year you know when
you take care of the salmon it beaches
the air everything we do in life plays a
role in taking care of
mother
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