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HOME-GROWN HEALTHY SNACKS FOR NURSERY TOTS

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News release

13th April 2012

Youngsters at The Old Station Nursery in Innsworth will be tucking into healthy snacks this year after planting their own vegetables.

Staff and children will be sewing the seeds to a good diet by growing a selection of tomatoes, sweet peas, lettuce and spring onions as part of the nursery’s support of the Healthy Body, Happy Me campaign, run by the National Day Nurseries Association. The idea is to encourage good eating habits in children from a young age.

The vegetables will be planted in raised beds in the nursery grounds. Once they are ready to be picked, they will be used by the in-house chef in lunches and dinners for children at the Imjin Barracks setting.

Manager Tracey Wilce said: “We’re lucky to have lovely gardens and we’re planning to make use of them in a healthy way that the children can become involved in. We’ll let them get their fingers dirty planting the vegetables and then let them help out with tending to them as the weeks go on.

“As any parent knows, it can be hard to encourage children to eat healthy food like vegetables, but if you get them involved in the growing stage, they will have more interest.

“We did a bit of a test run planting and growing some carrots last year which we let the children try, but now we want to take that a stage further and offer a wider range which they will eat.”

The planting session at 10am on Monday, 16th April will also include planting flowers such as pansies, cosmos and fuchsias.

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Notes to Editors

  • Members of the media can attend to take photographs on the day. Please contact us to confirm your attendance.
  • The Imjin Barracks’ nursery opened in September 2010
  • Managing Director of The Old Station Nursery, Sarah Steel, set up the first nursery in Faringdon, Oxfordshire, in 2002 when she left the army and was unable to find suitable childcare for her two children.  There are now 13 settings.
  • The company won the Business Development category of the Nursery World Awards in November 2008 and was shortlisted for the Nursery Chain of the Year award.
  • For more information visit www.theoldstationnursery.co.uk

Cerri Delaney
Shooting Star PR
01522 528540
cerri@shootingstar-pr.co.uk
www.shootingstar-pr.co.uk
t: @cerridelaney

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As any parent knows, it can be hard to encourage children to eat healthy food like vegetables, but if you get them involved in the growing stage, they will have more interest.
Tracey Wilce, Manager at The Old Station Nursery at Innsworth