Jul 2, 2026 · 43 min · 13 segments
Welcome to episode 10! It's a "very cool" topic this week, as Jeidan would say. Anna is sharing everything she's learned about the Three Sisters companion planting method; this history, the recipes…
thought I can remember now
really oh wow okay so I thought I had it bad you had it worse
Probably.
Yeah.
I mean, they lied to us about, you know, the Mayflower and all that jazz.
Yeah.
I was expecting what I learned to be wicked whitewashed, but it was more just really dumbed down, which is, I guess, better.
But I learned about it in middle school and get this, my computer class failed.
make that make sense for some reason they use that as the structure to help us learn how to like make shapes and
oh okay garden plans in excel or whatever
yeah that's
ridiculous
so that's random where i learned about yeah all the things that go together so do you know the three crops
good okay so we got corn beans and squash So a good portion of the information I got about the Three Sisters Planting Method, I got from the National Agricultural Library website at nal.usda.gov. Oh, wow.
So that's just their generic link, but I'll put the specific link in the show notes for anyone who's interested.
But I like this source because they were upfront in saying that the majority of the information we have on indigenous peoples was gathered by scholars who are not part of the indigenous community.
Interesting.
However, they made an effort to elevate indigenous authors and practitioners where they could.
So I wanted to start there.
Oh, I appreciate that.
Unfortunately, a lot of Native American knowledge has been silenced or, like I said, whitewashed.
So it's hard to find it straight from the source.
It's hard to pin down names.
thought I can remember now
really oh wow okay so I thought I had it bad you had it worse
Probably.
Yeah.
I mean, they lied to us about, you know, the Mayflower and all that jazz.
Yeah.
I was expecting what I learned to be wicked whitewashed, but it was more just really dumbed down, which is, I guess, better.
But I learned about it in middle school and get this, my computer class failed.
make that make sense for some reason they use that as the structure to help us learn how to like make shapes and
oh okay garden plans in excel or whatever
yeah that's
ridiculous
so that's random where i learned about yeah all the things that go together so do you know the three crops
good okay so we got corn beans and squash So a good portion of the information I got about the Three Sisters Planting Method, I got from the National Agricultural Library website at nal.usda.gov. Oh, wow.
So that's just their generic link, but I'll put the specific link in the show notes for anyone who's interested.
But I like this source because they were upfront in saying that the majority of the information we have on indigenous peoples was gathered by scholars who are not part of the indigenous community.
Interesting.
However, they made an effort to elevate indigenous authors and practitioners where they could.
So I wanted to start there.
Oh, I appreciate that.
Unfortunately, a lot of Native American knowledge has been silenced or, like I said, whitewashed.
So it's hard to find it straight from the source.
It's hard to pin down names.
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