New research at the Sixty Islands site in Michigan revealed large-scale Native American farming, challenging long-held ...

'Cherokee' multicolored popcorn. The concept of companion planting, in which one plant helps the other, is the basic idea behind the Three Sisters, but focusing on this alone glosses over many of ...

With its cold climate, short growing season, and dense forests, Michigan's Upper Peninsula is known as a challenging place ...

Using advanced farming techniques, such as aquaponics and ... When you talk American cuisine, you’re talking Native American cuisine Oneida language road signs installed in Wisconsin, the ...

Hundreds of acres in Michigan are covered in parallel rows of earth that are the remains of an ancient Native American ...

Schoolchildren in America learn the story of the “three sisters” in agriculture ... of the native eastern North American crops and explains how this “sleeping” agricultural system could become a ...

This story was originally published by The Conversation. Historians know that turkey and corn were part of the first Thanksgiving, when Wampanoag peoples shared a harvest meal with the pilgrims of ...

PEORIA – Anthony Suau's documentary "Organic Rising" sprang from personal experience - after returning to the U.S. from living abroad for many years, American food made him sick. “I came back ...

Robert Bonnie, former undersecretary for farm production and conservation (FPAC) at the Department of Agriculture (USDA ... The USDA works with Native American cultures to improve water ...

Native American farming operations, for example, may not fit the standard criteria envisioned by federal policymakers. And historically, federal programs may not have prioritized tribal resource ...