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The “Three Sisters” are corn, beans and squash grown together so each plant supports the others.

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Why it matters

The idea in context

In many Indigenous farming traditions of the Americas, corn gives beans a stalk to climb, beans enrich the soil, and squash shades the ground. This is agriculture as relationship: food grown through cooperation, not domination.

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Aynı kart, başka bir dilde.

“Üç Kız Kardeş”, mısır, fasulye ve kabağın birbirini destekleyecek şekilde birlikte yetiştirildiği Yerli Amerika tarım yöntemidir.

Mısır fasulyeye tırmanacak bir gövde sağlar; fasulye toprağı besler; kabak geniş yapraklarıyla toprağı gölgeler ve nemi korur. Bu yöntem, tarımı yalnızca verim hesabı olarak değil, bitkiler arasındaki karşılıklı destek olarak görür.

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Smithsonian Folklife describes corn, beans and squash as the Three Sisters, important companion crops in Indigenous communities in the Americas for centuries, with symbiotic environmental benefits. Source: https://festival.si.edu/event/corn-beans-and-squash-what-the-three-sisters-tell-us

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