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Article: Strega Nona Stresses Sustainability
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- Sunday News Lancaster, PA
- Article date:
- September 27, 2009
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Strega Nona is back, 34 years after the first of her many
appearances in the picture books of author-illustrator Tomie
dePaola.
This time granny good witch (the Italian translates as witch
grandmother) is portrayed as an advocate of sustainable agriculture,
an organic gardener and a "locavore," eating locally grown produce.
Since everything old is new again, the garden lore in "Strega
Nona's Harvest" will interest youngsters and parents who may just be
discovering the value of raising their own food and sharing it with
the neighbors.
Like adherents to the Old Farmers Almanac, Strega Nona collects
seeds from the previous year's produce and saves them over the
winter, plants them according to ...