Three Sisters

Our Saplings group got a special visit from Ms. Amanda, our Environmental Education Consultant and Garden Master.  She led us through a project of planting a row of “three sister” sets in our front garden. We learned that one sister is the corn, which provides a strong stalk in the middle.  A second sister is the bean, which gives nitrogen to the earth and climbs up the corn stalk. The third sister is the squash, which provides a blanket over the earth, conserving moisture for the other plants.

It will be so fun and rewarding to watch them grow, and to revisit the concepts we learned in planting them.

Thanks so much, Ms. Amanda!!