Three Sisters Garden Collection

Three sisters garden seed collection This is a group of rare seed that I have collected over the years. The three sisters is the backbone of much of the agriculture of indigenous peoples of the Eastern seaboard. The Mississippian culture (the middle Mississippian Culture c. 1200–1400) spread maize agriculture from Mexico into North America. As it spread it continued to go thru amazing changes that are apparent in such maizes as Gapse from in Canada to the Sehsapsing Black Flint that was raised locally here. The seed in this collection are all from local sources and are what would of been used by Lenni Lenape and other Iroquois tribes. The maize is Iroquois Tooth Corn -Iroquois Tooth Corn Seed. I first encounter this seed, years ago when I worked for William Woys Weaver at his Roughwood Farm. I have always been impressed by this plant, 12-15’ stalks that bare one and sometimes two ears that are just massive. The ears are protected from corn earworm (Helicoverpa zea my archenemy) for the