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Re:Dumped orange peel transformed a barren pasture (2017) by Suppafly on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @12:57PM (#41638525)
>Three Sister is a common technique.

I always wonder how common it was. You hear it mentioned anytime agriculture stuff gets brought up, but I wonder if it was a small group of people doing this and then everyone acting like all natives did it, or if it was actually widespread as people make it out to be.

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Re:Dumped orange peel transformed a barren pasture (2017) by dghughes on Friday September 27, 2024 @07:31AM (#41669094)
In my region the local First Nations people, Mi'Kmaq, teach it to students in local schools. One school made a garden and planted the corn, beans, squash. So at least here it's been talked about. I think they are, rightly, proud of the technique and implementing it. So I would say at least in this region of Mi'Kmaq (south eastern Canada) it was known about and used.
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