This week on The Historians Podcast, hear Harald Johnson, author of the historical novel New York 1609 which portrays the encounter between explorer Henry Hudson and early Dutch settlers with the Lenape Indians.
Listen to the podcast here.
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I want to thank Bob for the nice interview. One thing I forgot to mention in the podcast about the Lenape Indians was that in addition to being hunter-gatherers, they also engaged in small-scale horticulture in the form of “team planting” of the famous Three Sisters (corn, beans, and squash). These mixed gardens allowed the crops to help each other: the beans fertilized the corn, the corn provided structure for the climbing beans, and the squash leaves shaded out the weeds. Ingenious! (This omission is only in the interview; I have it covered in the novel itself.)
P.S. The New York Botanical Garden, New York City’s “museum of plants,” has a demonstration site with Three Sisters plantings.