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Working at Lymefield Garden Centre

Join the Lymefield team!

Click our ‘Join our team at Lymefield’ page on the footer for current vacancies.
 

Teamwork

Lymefield Garden Centre is made up of four distinct areas of work, Garden Centre, Farm Shop, Tea Room & Landscaping. Each of these departments is customer-facing & requires the key skill of teamwork. We call ourselves the Lymefield team as many areas of our jobs overlap making working together essential. Throughout the year, our Garden Centre is a hive of activity beyond the sales through the till. We host many events for ourselves & for our local charities. These include a Santa’s Grotto, a Pumpkin Patch, Coffee Mornings, Pop-up Stall, Food Tastings & we are always adding more. Teamwork is essential for these events to work as our team is small but very productive. 

Teamwork is vital to ensure that the customer has the very best experience when they visit Lymefield. Working together to solve problems & delivery the very best service every time has always been at the front of the Lymefield Garden Centre ethos.

Continuous Learning

An expectation at Lymefield is that each member of staff will take on training & learning throughout their role, this may involve gaining qualifications, keeping updated with current legislation or teaching our newest staff members & apprentices. Be ensuring that everyone is continuously learning we can expand roles, host different events, & give our customers to best experience whenever they visit Lymefield.

Caring for the Environment

One of the things that staff regularly mention is the beautiful environment in which our place of work is set. Lymefield Garden Centre is placed in the river Etherow Valley with trees, woods & fields surrounding us on all sides.
Coming down into Lymefield from the village of Broadbottom, the sky opens out for our buildings & car park. There are often sheep in the fields for you to admire, buzzards can be spotted flying high in the sky as they hunt for prey & during the summer, there are plenty of migrating birds including swallows & swifts.
To add to the animal spotting, you will also meet our resident dog, Jyp. She is the family dog, living & playing in Lymefield Garden Centre. She is a friendly dog as she always wants to play ball, occasionally asking for strokes & cuddles but mainly it’s about playing with the ball, please!
 

Starting a New Job

If you would like to be part of a team that values each other & their work environment, please CLICK HERE for our current vacancies. 
If you want to know more or you want to meet our team, please call in during work hours to chat & ask questions. We do value everyone who makes the special trip to find us for work at Lymefield Garden Centre. 
Follow us on our Social media links for more information on our work, services, events & job vacancies – we hope to meet you soon.

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Rural Oscars at Lymefield

Blue & green background Rural Awards Countryside Alliance Awards North of England Rural Enterprise Champion
Blue & green background Rural Awards Countryside Alliance Awards North of England Rural Enterprise Champion
We won!
Lymefield Garden Centre is the North of England Regional Winner for Rural Enterprise in the Countryside Alliance Awards!!
Also known as the Rural Oscars, it’s a brilliant reward for all the team that has worked so hard, especially over the past couple of years.
Their dedication has enabled us to support & bring our community into Lymefield.
 
But our biggest thanks go to all our customers & supporters who made this happen. All your votes have brought this to be, and we are truly grateful. #OurCustomersAreTheBest
THANK YOU
 
This May our team was invited down to London, at the House of Lords, for the award ceremony of the Rural Oscars. Mark, Jill, Yvonne & Josie had a wonderful day, celebrating the success and receiving our Rural Oscar award for Rural Enterprise for the North West.
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Tractor Trail at Lymefield

Free Family Event at Lymefield Garden Centre throughout the summer of 2022

Starting on Saturday 23rd July until Wednesday 31st August, you and all the family can play our Tractor Trail.

Find all the picutres of tractors, solve the word and receive a reward for all your hard work.

Exploring the Garden Centre, Farm Shop and Tea Room you will find lots of tractors with letters on them and if you get the answer right you can be entered into our Free Prize Draw.

There is no charge for this event, and no booking required. The trail is open every day during the dates stated, collect the form from the garden centre till.

Free tractor fun for all the family at Lymefield!

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Bunting Family Activity

Union Jack flags cut in the triangle shape of bunting

Design your own Jubilee bunting for Lymefield Garden Centre!

Download our Bunting template and instructions here.

To celebrate Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee, we are inviting you to create a piece of jubilee bunting and add it to our string in the Tea Room.

The theme for the bunting is the Queen’s Jubilee so be as creative as you can to make the most amazing bunting!

Please post, email info@lymefield.com or bring your designs to Lymefield by Wednesday 1st June.

Looking forward to receiving your bunting to create a beautiful display of your colourful work for all to see!

 

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About Us

The Pryce family has run a business on the banks of the River Etherow in Broadbottom for nearly 80 years and 4 generations, evolving from a small dairy farm and plant nursery popular with locals to create a thriving Garden Centre, Farm Shop, and Tea Room. Lymefield remains owned by the family with Robert and David Pryce running the business side by side.

We’re proud to say that throughout our long history, we’ve focused on doing one thing really well: providing local goods and services with a personal touch to our local community.


Our Farm Shop source much of its food from local producers and we love to shout out our local food heroes. The Butcher’s counter sources their pork & beef from local farmers in Chisworth and their mutton & lamb from our own flock. Our Deli Counter is bursting with local & British cheeses, meats, and Lymefield products and our shelves & fridges stock the best quality ingredients for your kitchen.

If we can’t source it locally, we source it regionally, with an emphasis on artisan produce that captures the flavour and feel of where it comes from.


The Tea Room sources all its meat, vegetables, and many other items from the Farm Shop to create imaginative and delicious specials to accompany our menu favourites! Our daily specials are created to show the range of our Farm Shop produce while our favourites of excellent cakes, pies and sandwiches remain a constant on our menu.

In our Garden centre, the plants are also ‘local’ in a sense – our selection is hand-picked for hardiness in the face of the worst weather that the North West can throw at us! There is always a colourful display of seasonal plants on outside our doors, with an abundance of plants in our Glasshouse from spring until summer. Our plant range includes acers, fruit trees, roses, buxus, ilex plus many many pots!

We have a well-established delivery service, delivering our local orders ourselves. Lymefield loves to throw an event; it gives all the team great pride to work with local charities throughout the year to host many events at Lymefield to aid our local community.


We pride ourselves on our friendly service, and our whole team would be delighted to hear from you, whatever the need, want, or problem!

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Frozen Ready Meals from Lymefield

Lymefield Farm Shop proudly present our new range of frozen ready meals! 

Created by our Lymefield Tea Room chefs using the freshest ingredients from our Farm Shop, our range covers all the familiy favourites plus a lot more. Order via email or phone for collection or delivery. 

Email: food@lymefield.com with your order and collection/delivery date. Orders for delivery need a minimum of £25 & will incur a £4 charge for local postcodes. Phone: 01475 764686 and speak to a member of the Farm Shop team. Or want to see more, visit our Farm Shop open at your leisure its open every day.

All our ready meals are found on the Farm Shop Order form too!

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Lymefield Farm Shop Order

Find your FARM SHOP ORDER here!!!!

At Lymefield, we are offering a new way to shop at our Farm Shop so we have created the FARM SHOP ORDER!

Click here to find a long list of our Farm Shop products including fresh vegetables, cupboard essentials, and our specialty food boxes.

Complete your form and upload it here on our website, paying a £10 deposit.

You can collect your order from the safety of your car, in-store, or arrange a delivery home.