Nursery World - A Unique Child: Health & Nutrition: Grow Your Own

Despite a bumper harvest, now is not the time to rest on your laurels in the garden

It’s been a glorious harvest time with nature in full flow, filling gardens, fields and hedgerows with a bountiful supply of produce, both cultivated and wild.

At this time of year, it’s easy to start dreaming of a life of self-sufficiency. When you can walk through your garden picking raspberries, apples, blackberries and pulling up sweet and crunchy beetroot; when you can snip off fresh salad leaves and flavour everything with aromatic herbs, it makes you feel at one with nature, a sort of healthier, worthier, more rooted version of yourself!

In fact, nature is so generous at this time of year, it can be hard to keep up with it. Luckily, at nursery there are always lots of hungry mouths to feed and it’s wonderful to see the children making the connection between growing and eating.

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