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Description
Students will explore the benefits of companion planting by investigating the traditional Native American planting of Three Sisters Gardens.
Students will:
- Learn about the practice of planting beans, corn, and squash together in the same plot that has been applied by the Indigenous people for hundreds of years.
- Learn how the growth habits and biology of certain plants can complement each other to form a symbiotic or mutually beneficial relationship.
General Assessment
What skills does this resource explicitly teach?
This resource explicitly teaches:
- how to plant a Three Sisters garden
- why the three plants compliment one another
- how to harvest and save the seeds from these plants
- how to grow the plants in containers
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Themes Addressed
Indigenous Knowledge (1)
- Rituals, Spirituality and Worldviews
Land Use & Natural Resources (1)
- Planting Native Species