In gardens across the continents, people have planted corn, beans, and squash together in small hills of soil. Typically, corn is planted first, followed shortly by beans in the same long, low mound.

Question: I've been reading about the Three Sisters Garden of corn, beans and squash and want to give it try. I have three children who I feel could learn about history while growing a food garden.

Native growers knew that planting corn, beans, squash and sunflowers together produced mutual benefits. Corn stalks created a trellis for beans to climb, and beans’ twining vines secured the corn in ...

Sweet corn can be planted from January through April in Central Florida and this month is the start of growing pole beans, beginning in February and going through April and then again in August ...

Consider planting the Three Sisters — corn, beans and squash May 28, 2023 at 4:00 a.m. by Peter Sutter ...

The Indigenous "Three Sisters" planting method featuring corn, beans, and squash builds resilience, sustains communities, and enriches culture and history.

The pole beans will be planted a few weeks later or when the corn plants are 6-12” tall. Before planting the young pole beans around the mound's edge do a good weeding if needed.

Corn is famous as one of "the three sisters" of corn, squash and beans grown together by Native Americans. In the 1500s, corn was taken to Spain, and from there, it was quickly introduced into ...

Ancestral Menominee farmers grew corn, beans and squash in earthen mounds they built on Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Madeleine McLeester Hundreds of years before the arrival of the first Europeans ...

Corn is famous as one of "the three sisters" of corn, squash and beans grown together by Native Americans. In the 1500s, corn was taken to Spain, and from there, it was quickly introduced into ...