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Thankfully, DeSpain’s recipe for a “Three Sister’s Salad” is a delicious use of those crops, which should be hitting their seasonal summer peak soon. While the recipe can work with frozen corn or ...
"Some of the best gardening tips I've heard." Gardener shares centuries-old vegetable-growing hack passed down by Native ...
It will also likely be at its peak when the annual Native American Days celebration occurs in September. "This is a great representation of what this place would have looked like," Linderman said.
Supported by recent research conducted by Indiana University associate scientist Ed Herrmann and his team, the Tenskwatawa corn was placed at Angel Mounds. It will likely be at its peak when the ...
Growing up in the mountains of western Guatemala, Feliciano Perez Tomas cultivated the same type of native maize his family had for generations. The breed of corn was central to his Indigenous K’iche’ ...
To protect thousands of varieties of Mexico's prized heirloom corn, leaders vote to amend the constitution to ban the planting of genetically modified corn seeds.
A constitutional ban on transgenic corn production in Mexico is expected to be approved this month and has been lauded by the government as a measure to protect the country’s native corn ...
After decades of “staying within the lines” of traditional Native art, Indigenous artists are increasingly moving into the contemporary art space.
For centuries Native Americans intercropped corn, beans and squash because the plants thrived together. A new initiative is measuring health and social benefits from reuniting the “three sisters.” ...
Five varieties of heirloom seeds from the Choctaw Nation were flown to the ISS last year and will be compared to Earth-bound seeds when planted this coming spring.