Complete Guide to the Three Sisters Garden

An Ancient PolycultureThe Three Sisters — corn, climbing beans, and winter squash — is the most famous and successful polyculture in agricultural history. Developed by Indigenous peoples of North America over thousands of years, it is a brilliant integrated cropping system where each plant enhances the others.How the System WorksCorn provides the vertical structure for climbing beans to ascend, freeing them from needing separate poles or trellises. Climbing beans fix atmospheric nitrogen, fe…