Accolade for organic nursery (From Craven Herald)

Accolade for organic nursery

3:21pm Saturday 26th April 2008

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Clapham organic nursery Growing with Grace has won the best small shop prize in this year's Soil Association Organic awards.

The awards celebrate businesses that have created quality organic products or services and demonstrated innovation, business leadership and a commitment to the organic industry.

Growing with Grace grows organic, seasonal salads and vegetables which it sells in a shop on the site, as well as through farmers' markets and via a vegetable box delivery scheme.

The Soil Association was particularly impressed with its community composting scheme, which processes green waste from the community.

The business also puts emphasis on education and works with local schools to teach children about organic growing.

Neil Marshall, a founder of Growing with Grace, said: "It's great for us to get recognition for organic growing, given the difficulties of running a small business in a rural area."

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