Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA, August 10th, 2005
ROBERTA STRICKLER Native American crops were grown in ways very unlike the farming that we know today. Farming was a woman's occupation because the men were out hunting and fishing and gathering. Perhaps that is why the three primary vetable crops corn, beans and squash were called the Three Sisters, as recorded at the time of first contact by Europeans, in this area, in the early 1600s. These concepts were threaded into a recent talk by Steve Runkle of Mechanicsburg, a volunteer speaker for the Susquehanna River Basin. Runkle's hobby is researching native American life in this region. Records...
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