Every morning, a delightful new tradition/chore for us, we go and inspect the Three Sisters Garden growing next to the farmhouse. Today we found string beans and peas to harvest, they were delicious. The corn stalks are shooting up sprouting tassels, the squash are sprouting yellow leaves, the cucumbers are growing in the back and we have two pumpkins well along.

Maria hops around in the garden checking the growth of the vegetables. It is a wonderful experience to eat the food you grow.  We are eating a zucchini from the garden today.

Three Sisters Gardens have special meanings, they were developed by Native-American women many years ago to grow squash, beans and corn – enough healthy food for people to live on. The Native-Americans brought this tradition to the early settlers from Europe and these gardens became a feminist symbol of women’s support for one another.

This garden has a lot of good in it and we can hardly believe its growth, even since yesterday. We plan a bigger Three Sisters next year.