The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

American Indians apply a growing technique to their vegetable gardens, a technique today's organic growers call "permaculture." Permaculture is a gardening tech- nique based on following the natural ecological design nature intended for the space being used for planting a garden in a sustainable manner. "Uh?" they just call the technique, "Three Sisters," and in some cases it's as simple as this: plant corn and when 12 inches tall, plant green beans at base of the corn stalk allowing beans to climb corn stalk. At the same time, plant squash 4 inches out from beans to grow and run along dese...