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[Livingontheland] Traditional Iroquois methods work for today's farmers
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- Subject: [Livingontheland] Traditional Iroquois methods work for today's farmers
- Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 06:42:14 -0700
Subject: Traditional Iroquois methods work for today's farmers
Contact: David Brand deb27@cornell.edu
607-255-3651
Cornell University News Service
Traditional Iroquois methods work for today's farmers
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-02/cuns-tim021104.php
SEATTLE -- Most agronomists look to their laboratories, greenhouses or
research farms for innovative new cropping techniques. But Jane Mt.
Pleasant, professor of horticulture and director of the American Indian
Program at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., has taken a different path,
mining her Iroquois heritage for planting and cultivation methods that work
for today's farmers.
Mt. Pleasant studies what traditionally are known as the "three sisters":
beans, corn and squash. These staples of Iroquois cropping are
traditionally grown together on a single plot, mimicking natural systems in
what agronomists call a polyculture. Though the Iroquois technique was not
developed scientifically, Mt. Pleasant notes that it is "agronomically
sound." The three sisters cropping system embodies all the things needed to
make crops grow in the Northeast, she says.
- [Livingontheland] Traditional Iroquois methods work for today's farmers, Tradingpost, 02/22/2004
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