Here’s what I learned. Above: The “Native Food & Farming” course at Sterling College in Craftsbury, Vt., teaches the Three Sisters method. Photograph by Sterling College via Flickr. The Three Sisters ...

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

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 ...

And the beans put nitrogen back into the soil to fertilize the corn and the squash. Together, these three crops – as well as ...