Nursery World - Healthy eating starts at nursery's allotment

Children at a nursery in Greater Manchester are developing green fingers with their own allotment. At the Busy Bees Nursery at the University of Salford they have dug, planted, watered and weeded and are now enjoying fresh fruit and vegetables harvested from their own outdoor area.

At the Busy Bees Nursery at the University of Salford they have dug, planted, watered and weeded and are now enjoying fresh fruit and vegetables harvested from their own outdoor area.

Nursery manager Susan Maloney said they had the idea for an allotment after a nutritionist visited the nursery to talk about healthy eating.

Ms Maloney said, 'We started off growing beans and seeds in indoor pots but our nutritionist, Ady Delaney, and his colleague, Gary Wright, suggested that the children could get more involved if we had a proper garden.'

Nursery staff chose an area outside the nursery kitchen as the site of the new allotment. The children helped to plant a range of fruit and vegetables, including beetroot, turnips, cabbage, tomatoes, garlic, courgettes and strawberries.

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