Secrets of the First Thanksgiving Offer Help to Modern Gardeners
Most American schoolchildren know the Pilgrims came to America, landed at Plymouth Rock and struggled to survive before eventually celebrating their First Thanksgiving with the Native Americans. What few Americans know are the secrets of one Native American helped to make that First Thanksgiving possible, and those gardening secrets are just as relevant today. The Pilgrims were struggling because their gardening knowledge and techniques were based on a very different climate and soil conditions-those of Europe, instead of New England.