'nurturing tradition' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a family, or a community, who maintain a cherished tradition that has been handed down from previous generations. For example: The Matheson family was proud to keep their nurturing tradition of gathering together on Sunday evenings alive and well.
I was determined to continue the nurturing tradition of professors at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) by instilling confidence, knowledge, and pride.
In the for-profit college field, it appears that what works are preppy-sounding family or village names, evoking Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Amherst -- in other words, evoking exclusivity, nurturing, tradition, success, power.
WHITE PLAINS - IN the 111 years since New York Hospital first moved its psychiatric patients to the red-brick complex on the 214-acre medical campus here on Bloomingdale Road, the influence of technology on medical care has grown exponentially -- at the expense, some say, of the bedside manner and other nurturing traditions.
The agricultural economy nurtured tradition-directed individuals.
It's an important social occasion for the hundreds of Gypsies and Travellers who attend, as well as an opportunity to conduct business, nurture traditions and, of course, get down to some serious horse trading.
It could be also used as a tool to inspire new songs, poems, dances, and theatre plays within the local art style, nurturing the tradition and knowledge for future generations.
Today, neighborhood bouts are still sometimes staged among friends for small antes or sheer sport, while serious cricket fanciers in Beijing, Shanghai and a few other cities belong to associations that nurture the tradition, holding a national championship each October.
The quasi-domestic medieval workshop, containing at most a few dozen people, nurtured a tradition of perfectionism, allowing scope to care about the right choice of materials and methods of construction.
This is a remarkably shortsighted way to nurture the traditions of Christian belief.
Judges praised the label - home to Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Nicola Benedetti - for "renewing tradition, nurturing musicians and enriching lives".
Still, it means something to be nurtured in a tradition.
