Nursery World - Nursery Management: Case Study

An organic nursery is setting out to continue what eco-conscious parents do at home, says Sue Learner.

After 'a lot of blood, sweat and tears', Vanessa Warn and her business partner Tracey Brooks have fulfilled their dream and opened the doors of Little Green Rascals, the first totally organic, Soil Association-registered nursery in the north of England.

It has been a year and a half since Vanessa spotted the ideal location for the organic nursery in an old farmhouse next to the popular York Maze.

'I knew Tom Pearcy, who owns the Maze, and was having a look around when I had a "lightbulb moment". I realised the old farmhouse next to it would make a perfect children's nursery. We have spent a vast amount of money turning it into a nursery and we have it on a seven-year lease with the option to buy it in three years,' she says.

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