Jane Mount Pleasant

Jane Mount Pleasant (born about 1950) is an American agricultural scientist and associate professor emerita at Cornell University. She grew up in Syracuse, New York, to a mother of European descent and a Tuscarora father who was a factory foreman, worked in New York City as a taxi driver and union shop steward, then obtained a master's degree from Cornell University and in 1987 a PhD in soil science from North Carolina State University. She joined the Cornell faculty in 1987, where she taught horticulture and directed the American Indian studies program. Her research focuses on Indigenous techniques for growing corn, in particular the Three Sisters method of growing corn, beans and squash together to enhance productivity and soil fertility, and her publications include work on the food yields and nutrient analysis of this Haudenosaunee cropping system as well as on weed management in corn.