As Sabino Canyon Volunteer Naturalists (SCVN), we offer elementary school teachers six programs to choose from when they bring their students to the canyon. One of the programs, ‘Back To The Past,’ is about how the Hohokam could survive in the Tucson basin over 1000 years ago. Students learn about the ‘three sisters,’ corn, beans, and squash.
Always enjoyed this story of the Three Sisters. The tall corn made the perfect place for the bean vines to wind around and the stalks also provided shade for the squash. Those three foods were basics for th em.