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Local Ingredients Lower Saxony is known for its agricultural production due to its fertile soil and vast farmlands, which provide a variety of local ingredients for the region’s cuisine. Some of its native ingredients and resources include: • Asparagus: Lower Saxony is the largest asparagus-growing region in Germany, particularly known for its white asparagus which is grown in sandy soils around the towns of Nienburg and Braunschweig. Asparagus season usually starts in late April and ends in June.

TOWN MUSICIANS OF BREMEN

A famous fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm from 1819 tells the story of four domestic animals, a donkey, a dog, a cat, and a rooster, who are past their prime and useless to their masters deciding to go to the Northern German city of Bremen to become musicians. On their way, they come across a cottage full of robbers, and they scare them away by making a ruckus. The animals take over the house, eat, and rest. Later that night, the robbers return, but the animals fight back, and the robbers think they are attacked by a witch, a dwarf, a monster, and a judge, and they run away. The animals take over the cottage and live happily ever after. Despite the fact that the animals never actually made it to Bremen, the city built a statue of the four pals in honor of the tale in 1953.

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