Hain welcomed Backyard Farmer to her home gardens, explains veggie donations
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The Grain Place resident Kathryn Hain speaks to Nebraska Public Media’s ‘Backyard Farmer’ program about her efforts exploring the Three Sisters gardening technique.
An avid fan of cultural history, gardening and agriculture, one Marquette resident has taken her passion and transformed it into a sprawling and successful learning experience.
Kathryn Hain, who takes advantage of the ample space at The Grain Place, where her home with husband Raymond is located, has spread out across five separate gardens. In this handful of growing space, she has brought an idea to life by using the “Three Sisters” farming technique.
Her use of this technique even caught the eye of a popular Nebraska Public Media program -- Backyard Farmer.
“In late May I was granted the use of this garden (at The Grain Place),” Hain began. “So rather than turn it back to grass, they let me experiment. I’ve always wanted to do Three Sisters gardening.”
The “Three Sisters” farming and gardening technique, according to almanac.com (the Farmer’s Almanac website), is a method of companion farming where “three plants (grow) symbiotically to deter weeds and pests, enrich the soil, and support each other.”
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