Surprise! The team rushed out to harvest black currants prior to the next round of rain (what a turn-around the last couple of weeks have meant as the dry spell is now a distant memory). From the adjacent towering 3 Sisters garden popped a hen and her clutch of 8 (?) chicks! We had witnessed […]
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Finding What We Need!
August 2, 2018 – 10:08 am
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Three Sisters
August 9, 2017 – 10:59 am
Corn, beans, and squash create a special alchemy together in the field and on the plate. In legend, the plants were a gift from the gods, always to be grown together, eaten together, and celebrated together. This companion planting trio was widespread across North America and the Iroquois label, “three sisters”, is woven into contemporary gardening […]
By Laura
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Also tagged beans, corn, floating bridge food and farms, gratitude, interdependence, squash
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Corn is getting bigger!
July 20, 2017 – 2:19 pm
This photo shows both our excitement about this year’s experiment with the Native American Three Sisters companion approach (Corn, Beans & Squash) and are thankfulness that our sprayer for foliar feeding is finally working. Nice work on pump replacement Mari. So the corn is looking good so far, but we’ll see what happens. Today […]
By Laura
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Also tagged agritourism, companion, corn, open farm, tour
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