05/31/2022
A final look at the glorious green bounty my class of busy bees & school family helped cultivate. This special area is shared by a handful of teachers to tend. It is growing in so many ways thanks to sharing the toil with , our budding gardener students & parent volunteers. We have harvested and cooked with so many things from the raised beds this year. It’s here amongst berries, sunflowers & marigolds we buried our beloved class beta fish Bubbles this past week (he was over 3 years old!). Currently, we will leave the ‘Three Sisters Garden’ based on the Haudenosaunee Legend 🐝 of corn, beans, and squash from ancestral seed to grow on as we go on break - These “three sisters” are considered by the Haudenosaunee people to be special gifts from the daughter of Original Woman. THE HAUDENOSAUNEE PEOPLE are a confederacy of six nations native to the Northeast in the US, as well as Ontario and Quebec in Canada. This confederacy consists of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora. Haudenosaunee means “people of the longhouse.”
Corn, beans, and squash are considered by the Haudenosaunee people to be special gifts from the daughter of Original Woman (Skywoman). As the story goes, when the daughter was dying in childbirth, she said that from her body would come the foods that would sustain the people. From her hands came the beans, from her breasts grew the corn, from her bellybutton grew the squash vines. From her legs grew the sunflowers, and from her head grew the sacred to***co. From her heart sprouted the strawberry, and from her feet the original potato, known as a sunchoke. This is the cosmological story that comes to life every time Haudenosaunee people plant a Three Sisters Garden. Credit to Three Sisters Description to author: Rowen White https://emergencemagazine.org/gallery/three-sisters/
