Native American Three Sisters Garden

My students made this in the courtyard of our school to blow off steam during testing week. Growing three sisters (corn, beans and squash) as well as some traditional Meso-American crops such as tomato, tomatillo, chili peppers. Down the hill is a worm composter which they are filling with lunch refuse.

They brought in soil from home and some bags of fireplaces ashes. I pilfered some wood chips from a town works department dump and we mixed it all together to simulate swidden agriculture, slash and burn. Groundhog is starting to nibble, so a non-earthy fence will soon abound and surround to slow him/them down a little more.
They planted saved and salvaged seeds into cups in the classroom to make it easy to transplant. The bigger pumpkin is from an old jack-o-lantern seed that a squirrel must have buried in my yard and forgotten about until it sprouted last week.

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Education

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• Native American Garden
• Milpa
• Three Sisters Garden