

Their experience showed them that hardy vegetables such as potatoes, onions, peas, broccoli and cabbage are likely to flourish during this season. This is when you can transition your indoor crops to an outdoor garden and begin your planting in earnest. By April, the ground should be fertile and the weather should be kinder. Because the weather may still be inhospitable during this season, they found that you can start some crops inside by growing flowers and plant seeds indoors. A time to be born and a time to die a time to plant and a time to harvest.” The authors’ lived this principle firsthand and they found that March was the best time to start your garden. Through this experience, they found a new appreciation for the Biblical assertion that “for everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven. The authors’ new life choices showed them that they would have to learn and grow according to the seasons. These shared resources enable the three of them to flourish and the soil is healthier as a result. That’s because these crops work together, pulling mutually beneficial nutrients from the air and soil and sharing those resources with one another. The mythical guardians of corn, beans, and squash might not exist, but keeping these “sister plants” together is always a good idea. This might sound like a lovely story but the principles of environmental biology have revealed that it’s more than just a lovely myth. And not only did they reap a consistently plentiful harvest, they found that their land was healthier and more fertile as a result.

As a result, the villagers always planted corn, beans, and squash together. And to thank the villagers for their kindness, they promised that the villagers would always have a bountiful harvest of each of these three crops. The sisters later revealed that they were the spiritual guardians of three crops: corn, beans, and squash. The villagers didn’t have much to offer, but they took pity on the sisters and shared everything they had out of the kindness of their hearts. As the story goes, there were once three sisters who visited a Native American village in search of food and shelter.
