The story of how the Pilgrims arrived at our shores on the Mayflower—and how a friendly Patuxet native named Squanto showed them how to plant corn, using fish as fertilizer—is well-known.

This fruitful peace lasted five decades. Squanto also taught the Pilgrims how to catch eels, plant corn more efficiently and convert fish into fertilizer. Squanto got himself in trouble for trying ...

Squanto eventually made it back to Patuxet ... "He did show the English how to plant corn using herring or fish as a fertilizer. That much we know … and whether or not he was actually there ...

This fruitful peace lasted five decades. Squanto also taught the Pilgrims how to catch eels, plant corn more efficiently, and convert fish into fertilizer. Squanto got himself in trouble for ...

Then he showed them how to plant corn, the new plant of the New World, in the native way, by planting the kernels in mounds of soil with fish heads as a strong fertilizer. Squanto taught them how ...

Free eBook on fish and other marine fertilizers For more information on how Native Americans grew their food using fertilizers from the sea, read "Squanto's Secret Garden," a free Thanksgiving ...

also known as "Squanto," taught the Pilgrims to plant beans and squash with maize around it, using fish remains as fertilizer. More than 160 years after the 1621 feast, President George Washington ...