Squash History

No, not "squash," the verb, but "squash," the noun! Seeds from 12,000 years ago were found in caves in Equador, and the Iroquois planted them next to two other crops that, together, they called the "Three Sisters": http://blog.americanhistory.si.edu/osaycanyousee/2011/11/from-the-victory-garden-american-history-told-through-squash.html