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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 13-04-24
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[01] Scarecrows 'the guards of crops' become exhibits
[01] Scarecrows 'the guards of crops' become exhibits
AMNA--Scarecrows were once the guards of nature, and people built them
to protect their cultivations. However, today they are out of a job
given that pesticides now deter the reptiles and the birds.
Now, the scarecrows are preparing for a new career, that of exhibit in
a permanent exhibition in the northern Greek city of Katerini.
The scarecrows, which were once placed in fruit and vegetable gardens
and at the borders between farming plots for the purpose of repelling
whatever flying or crawling invader that posed a threat to the crops,
are now an unknown figure to the children.
The Voluntary Action Team of Pieria prefecture decided to cooperate with
primary school and kindergarten teachers of the area in order to rescue
this tradition of the agricultural life in Greece.
Thirty schools have already accepted the invitation and the volunteers
will instruct the teachers on how to build a scarecrow. Each school will
use its imagination to make its own scarecrow, and all the scarecrows
together will be put on display in a permanent exhibition in the
premises of the Tobacco Station of Katerini, while the best scarecrow
will be awarded.
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