What Are The Three Sister Crops?
According to some Indigenous communities across the Americas, Corn is a holy crop and she has sisters: Beans and Squash. For these communities, the three sister crops are meant to be grown and served together, a farming practice also known as companion planting. What can we learn about this agricultural practice developed over millennia?
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