NMSU Extension program encourages Navajo families to raise backyard gardens

GALLUP – When driving north from Gallup on U.S. 491 to Shiprock, passing through the barren, arid terrain, it is hard to imagine fields of corn, squash and beans, and fruit trees thriving in this corridor of northwestern New Mexico and the Navajo Nation’s eastern region.

For decades, Native Americans living in this area grew the traditional Three Sisters – corn, squash and beans.

http://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/education/nmsu/2017/12/16/nmsu-extension-program-encourages-navajo-families-raise-backyard-gardens/958290001/