Have you heard about the “Three Sisters?” Those are the crops of corn, beans and squash. For centuries, they’ve been at the ...

Taken together, these policies almost entirely eradicated three sisters agriculture from Native communities in the Midwest by the 1930s. Today Native people all over the U.S. are working diligently to ...

Photograph by Sterling College via Flickr. The Three Sisters is an important intercropping method of gardening developed by farmers of Indigenous cultures whereby three crops are planted together in a ...

If you’d like to grow a Three Sisters Garden to celebrate the legacy of indigenous agriculture or for any other reason, we’ll teach you the ins and outs in this article including Three Sisters garden ...

The three sisters refer to a traditional trio of plants grown by various Indigenous Peoples across North and Central America—corn, climbing beans and squash. When planted side by side these crops help ...