My Favourite Colour is Green includes case studies from Alliance member settings. Michael Freeston, director of quality improvement at the Alliance, said that often settings started growing their own vegetables as a 'useful route in' to wider projects with an environmental theme.
'Almost without exception, settings hadn't set out to do something about sustainability, but projects took on a life of their own,' he said.
Josie Lait, nursery manager at Northend Children's Centre in Slade Green, Kent, said, 'One of the challenges that we faced is that we are based on a disused landfill site so there are no areas for digging. Lots of our families live in high-rise blocks with no garden.'
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