Crops and Ingredients
Maize, beans and squash were known as the three sisters for their symbiotic relationship when grown together by the North American and Meso-American natives. If the South Americans had similar methods of what is known as companion planting it is lost to us today.
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Famous quotes containing the words crops and/or ingredients:
“That’s funny. That plane’s dustin’ crops where they ain’t no crops.”
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