Prosperity Workshop: The Power of the Three Sisters

The Three Sisters are corn, beans, and squash. For thousands of years indigenous people of North America have perfected the science of planting them together as a huge advancement in agriculture. All throughout the Americas, wherever it is warm enough, Native peoples create mounds where they first plant corn. Then, once the corn is about half a foot tall, they plant beans and squash around the corn.

In my tradition of Mexican Curanderismo, maize, or corn, is the most sacred plant there is, and it is incorporated into almost every single traditional food we eat. Culturally, we have always used the 3 sister method, planting mounds with maize in the center, and surrounded by frijoles (beans) and calabaza (squash). We call these mounds milpas.