Your Garden Guide: . . . . Sun, Jul 28, 6:32AM PST (-0800 GMT)
DIG Discovery #1 – Who are the Three Sisters ? button
Your Garden Guide: . . . . Sun, Jul 28, 6:32AM PST (-0800 GMT)
DIG Discovery #2 – At first there were only two sisters – which was the third sister and how did she arrive in North America? What did it provide that changed the people’s diet ?
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Your Garden Guide: . . . . Sun, Jul 28, 6:32AM PST (-0800 GMT)
DIG Discovery #3 – What innovation in cooking tools made it possible for the third sister to become such an important part of native life ? button
Your Garden Guide: . . . . Sun, Jul 28, 6:32AM PST (-0800 GMT)
DIG Discovery #4 – How are the Three Sisters planted that is unique? button
Your Garden Guide: . . . . Sun, Jul 28, 6:32AM PST (-0800 GMT)
DIG Discovery #5 – What does the Three Sister planting method symbolize for Native Americans today ? button
Your Garden Guide: . . . . Sun, Jul 28, 6:33AM PST (-0800 GMT)
DIG Discovery #6 – In a Three Sisters garden, what does each sister provide that helps one another grow? button
: . . . . Sun, Jul 28, 2:24PM PST (-0800 GMT)
#1 corns,beans, and squash
Mrs. Carmen King: . . . . Sun, Jul 28, 2:26PM PST (-0800 GMT)
Were there three sisters in other cultures beside the Native American culture?
Mrs. Carmen King: . . . . Sun, Jul 28, 2:30PM PST (-0800 GMT)
Were there three sisters in other cultures beside the Native American culture?
Patricia, Santa Clara Day School: . . . . Sun, Jul 28, 2:30PM PST (-0800 GMT)
#1 The three sisters are corns, beans, and squash.
Patricia, Santa Clara Day School: . . . . Sun, Jul 28, 2:30PM PST (-0800 GMT)
#2 Beans were the third sister. Beans came from Central America and provided protein.
Mrs. Carmen King: . . . . Sun, Jul 28, 2:34PM PST (-0800 GMT)
Do the roots of the three sisters ever choke or kill out each other?
Lynda: . . . . Sun, Jul 28, 2:38PM PST (-0800 GMT)
1. Who are the Three Sisters?
3 sisters - corn, beans and squash
2. At first there were only two sisters – which was the third sister and how did she arrive in North America? What did it provide that changed the people’s diet ?
The introduction of beans from Central America changed the southwest diet.
Beans increased the nutritional value of the cultivated diet, providing a whole protein by combining a grain (corn), a vegetable (squash), and a protein-rich legume (bean).
The lysine in beans was a missing ingredient in the previous corn and squash diets, and now made a full protein available form plant sources, not just meat.
3. What innovation in cooking tools made it possible for the third sister to become such an important part of native life ?
With pottery bowls, women could now cook right over an open fire. Being able to boil water meant beans could be cooked and lead to a major dietary improvement.
Patricia, Santa Clara Day School: . . . . Sun, Jul 28, 2:43PM PST (-0800 GMT)
#3 Pottery is the invention that made it possible to cook beans. They learned to boil the beans in the pots.
Emelda : . . . . Sun, Jul 28, 2:45PM PST (-0800 GMT)
Talking about critters, which insects should we look out for?
Ms. Gomes, Teacher NMS: . . . . Sat, Aug 17, 10:14AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig #1 The 3 sisters, corn, beans and squash supplement and compliment each other.
Ms. R. Silva, NMS: . . . . Sat, Aug 17, 10:16AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig #1 - The 3 sisters is a gardening technique of planting beans, corn, and sqaush together on the same mound where they supplement and compliment each other. The Native Americans used this gardening technique to describe their way of life.
Ms. R. Silva, NMS: . . . . Sat, Aug 17, 10:21AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig #2 - The third sister, beans, arrived from Central America. Beans provided a whole protein that was not in the diet of the Native Americans. Additionally, it provided an alternative protein to meat.
Ms. Pino: . . . . Sat, Aug 17, 10:25AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#1 - The three sisters are corn, beans and squash
Ms. R. Silva, NMS: . . . . Sat, Aug 17, 10:26AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig #3 - The introduction of pottery was the cooking tool that changed the diet of the Native Americans.
Pottery made it possible for the women of the tribes to boil food which broke down the ingredients of the food which made it more digestible.
Ms. R. Silva, NMS: . . . . Sat, Aug 17, 10:29AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig #4 - The 3 sisters are planted together on the same mound where they supplement and compliment each other.
Ms. R. Silva, NMS: . . . . Sat, Aug 17, 10:34AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig #5 - The 3 sisters symbolize that we do not stand alone, but we support one another. Only with the assistance of each other can we grow. This symbolism is a very important part of the Native American culture.
Ms. Gomes, Teacher NMS: . . . . Sat, Aug 17, 10:34AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig #5- The 3 Sisters symbolize thatwe do not stand alone, we support each other, and we can only grow with the assistence of one another.
Ms. Pino: . . . . Sat, Aug 17, 10:35AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#2 corn, beans and squash
Ms. R. Silva, NMS: . . . . Sat, Aug 17, 10:40AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig #6 - The 3 sisters gardening technique provides support for all the plants. Due to the height of the corn stalks they serve as a pole for the beans to grow. The beans in return add nitrogen to the soil which assist the corn and the squash provides ground cover for all which helps the soil retain moisture.
Ms. Gomes, Teacher NMS: . . . . Sat, Aug 17, 10:44AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig #5-The corn stalk serves as a pole for the beans.
The beans help to add the nitrogen to the soil that the corn needs. The squash provides a ground cover of shade that helps the soil retain moisture.
Ms. Pino: . . . . Sat, Aug 17, 10:45AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#3Now it was possible to boil foods and get more nutrition from them by breaking down their ingredients to a more digestible form.
Ms. Gomes, Teacher NMS: . . . . Sat, Aug 17, 10:46AM PST (-0800 GMT)
OOPS! My previous answer should have been listed as Dig #6
Ms. Pino: . . . . Sat, Aug 17, 10:56AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#3 makes it unique because they are planted on the same mound.
Unknown Teacher: . . . . Wed, Aug 21, 2:27PM PST (-0800 GMT)
Looks like those great teachers at Nightingale have already answered every question. Oh well. :-(