sometimes calledmixed croppingor milpa agriculture, where different crops are planted together, rather than in big monoculture fields as farmers do today. The Three Sisters (maize,beans, andsquash) is what Indigenous farmers in North America called a classic form of mixed cropping, and archaeological...
Several varieties of the bean and of the squash were also cultivated by the Iroquois, and were indigenous in the American soil. They regarded the corn, the bean, and the squash as the special gift of the Great Spirit, and associated them together under the name of the Th...
When European settlers arrived in America in the early 1600s, the Iroquois had been growing the “three sisters” for over three centuries. The vegetable trio sustained the Native Americans both physically and spiritually. In legend, the plants were a gift from the gods, always to be grown to...
Planting The Three Sisters is an excellent use of space in a small garden. The concept of growing beans, corn, and squash together is an ancient agricultural technique known as theThree Sistersmethod. This practice originated with Indigenous peoples of the Americas and is a brilliant example of...