Nursery World - Nursery Food: Award winner

Elmscot Day Nursery and Nursery School's comprehensive approach to
food offers an inspiring example of good practice, writes Ruth
Thomson.

When Nursery World called Elmscot Day Nursery and Nursery School to congratulate the team again on winning the Nursery World Nursery Food Award 2015, joint owner Stephanie Molnar was taking delivery of a load of garlic. It needs to be planted now, she explained, if the nursery is to have a ready supply by next summer, and planting in the autumn, rather than the spring, gives you bigger and more flavourful bulbs.

It was this meticulous planning in all aspects of food provision, backed up by an impressive training programme, that saw the setting emerge top of the judges' score sheet for this year's award.

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