The Three Sisters of agriculture

Indigenous American and Canadian people's Three Sisters farming method is very similar to post-modern methods of intercropping, and was used to sustain indigenous communities for centuries. Janine Ryan reports.

Indigenous people of North America and Canada have long been agriculturalists and farmers. According to Christina Gish Hill, an associate professor of anthropology at Iowa State University in the US, the first Europeans to settle in North America were amazed at the abundance of food. The key to the indigenous people's food production lies in the story of the Three Sisters. In his book, Indian Legends of Eastern Canada, Lois Thomas tells the story of the Three Sisters, based on the oral stories of various indigenous American and Canadian people. The stories differ somewhat from community to community, but the premise remains largely the same. According to Thomas’s account, the Three Sisters lived together in a field. They were quite different from each other and dressed in their own unique ways. As…

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Farmer's Weekly (Digital) - 1 Issue, 21 October 2022

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