In a shortcut between parking lots and classrooms at the University of Georgia, a transformation is taking place. A garden where medicinal plants from places like the Caribbean, Mexico, and South and Central America grow is now home to the Three Sisters.
This symbiotic planting of squash, beans, and corn together fed people in the Southeast US for centuries before European contact.
WUGA’s Emma Auer has more on what adding the Three Sisters to the garden means for UGA scholars and indigenous students.