The taller corn and beans also provide shade for the squash from the summer heat. Such intercropping benefits exemplified by the 'Three Sisters’ can be utilized elsewhere around the garden too.

“The monocrop corn I’m seeing is 100 bu. less than where they’re intercropping and spending the exact same dollar,” he says. Intercropping adds space and opportunity for end-of-row-type ...

called intercropping, is a great way to maximize the number of roots in the soil and the biology that makes up the soil food web. Following the Indians' lead, why not grow corn, beans and squash ...