Joe Maize

Three Sisters (agriculture) Three Sisters (agriculture) Agricultural technique of Indigenous people in the Americas This article is about maize, beans, and squash. For the variety of tomato, see Three Sisters tomato. The Three Sisters (Spanish: tres hermanas) are the three main agricultural crops of various indigenous people of Central and North America: squash, maize ("corn"), and climbing beans (typically tepary beans or common beans). Traditionally, several Native American groups planted sunflowers on the north edges of their gardens as a "fourth sister."[1] In a technique known as companion planting, the maize and beans are often planted together in mounds formed by hilling soil around the base of the plants each year; squash is typically planted between the mounds. The cornstalk…

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