A soil painting produced by five Cornellians won ... The painting, titled “Three Sisters,” depicts three women holding hands and dancing around in a circle near wooden baskets.

Beans, in turn, enrich the soil with nitrogen, helping all three ... the Three Sisters are woven into every aspect of life. They are featured in legends, traditional stories, and art, showing ...

Literature has the Brontë sisters; democracy ... Beans are like natural fertilizers that enrich the soil for all three plants with nitrogen. Meanwhile, squash plays the role of living mulch ...

This classic companion planting combo encourages each of the three to ... to the soil, enriching it for the other plants, while also vining their way around to hold the sisters together.

It keeps the soil fertile and grows more food. The food it does produce is high in protein, nutrition and especially calories. The Three Sisters are main staple crops, that when eaten together ...

Lastly, squash plants grow low and wide around the corn and beans, their huge leaves carpeting the ground and preventing both weed growth and evaporation of soil moisture. This traditional triad, ...