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Pumpkin Patch at Lymefield

Pumpkin Patch at Lymefield 

Lymefield Garden Centre is hosting its annual charity Halloween event on Saturday 21st, Sunday 22nd, Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th October.

Starting at 10am. each day, you can book your half slot to wander around in the Pumpkin Patch. Whilst you are in the pumpkin field, take lots of photos with all the specially gathered vehicles & spooky extras.  Please bring your wellies, our fields are used for grazing sheep so they can get muddy in wet weather. The field is outdoors so maybe bring an umbrella too if it’s raining.

For the little ones, we do have wheelbarrows to help them carry their special pumpkin indoors!

Come down to choose your own Pumpkin from the Pumpkin Patch.

When you have found your pumpkin, take it indoors to carve. Inside there is plenty of carving equipment & messy areas to create your pumpkin faces. The fabulous volunteers from The Bureau will be available to do the hardest part, as they will take the top of your pumpkin & scoop out the middle for you!

Raising funds for charity

We are donating money from all pumpkins sold to a very special local charity, The Bureau. This fabulous charity is helping people in Glossop & surrounding villages, with improving their well-being. It works in all sorts of areas of life, from support groups for carers to providing volunteer opportunties. Click on this link to find more….

Halloween Treats

After all this hard work, choosing & creating your pumpkins, please make use of our refreshments in the Farm Shop & Tea Room. If you would like to book a table as part of your visit, please call 01457 764686 to make your reservation. Alternatively, our Farm Shop has a great selection of freshly made sandwiches, cakes & drinks to take away.

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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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Santa’s Grotto by Reuben’s Retreat Charity

We are delighted that Santa’s Grotto in aid of Reuben’s Retreat is back again at Lymefield with Santa Claus.

The local charity, Reuben’s Retreat, and their hard-working team of volunteers create a magical setting here at Lymefield in the Glasshouse for Santa and his elves.

Reuben’s Retreat is in the next phase of its huge project to provide support for children and their families who have life-limiting conditions or have lost a child.

Located in the heart of Glossop this fantastic charity provides ‘a place to Relax, Recharge, Remember, Rebuild, built on an army of love and compassion.’ At Lymefield Garden Centre, we are very proud to facilitate Reuben’s Retreat with their fundraising this December.

The Grotto will be here in December on 3rd, 4th, 10th, 11th, 17th & 18th December. Each day it will run from 10am until 4pm. It is £7 per child (discounts for siblings) including a gift in Santa’s Grotto.

Please book your tickets on the Reuben’s Retreat website to avoid disappointment on the day. If you would like any further information, please call Reuben’s Retreat directly on tel: 01457 680 023

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Lymefield Winter Festival

Lymefield Winter Festival has it all this year, it’s all your Christmas favourites in one day!

And its free – no tickets required

Our Farm Shop & suppliers will be showcasing their products for you to try and buy!

Martins Craft Bakery, Tameside Distillery, Raydale Preserves & Morgenrot are all bringing their wonderful food & drink for you to share.

Delicious hot homemade food & drinks from the Lymefield Tea Room kitchen will available from stalls in the Glasshouse.

Alongside live music from Glossop Ukelele Group, Hattersley Brass Band & Lets Sing Choir.

Lymefield Garden Centre is delighted that Father Christmas is coming to Lymefield for the day to show our festivities! No need to book to see Santa Claus alongside the Glossop Mountain Rescue Team.

Our Winter Festival starts at 11am until 4pm, all undercover here at Lymefield Garden Centre, Tea Room and Farm Shop.

For updates on the festival before & during the day, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

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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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Manure for delivery in Manchester

Using Farm Manure In The Garden

In the early months of the year, we can usually expect some of our coldest weather and there is good reason to assume that little can be done in the garden at this time however is not necessarily the case! Preparation in your garden for the upcoming growing season is vital and the use of farm manure in the garden can play a big part. Manure is a natural, organic material rich in nutrients with multiple uses throughout the garden. Its a great allrounder for boosting your garden & plants, use it for mulching, feeding plants, or as a soil improver.

Manure for Mulching

In basic terms, mulching is the method of placing manure or bark around the base of plants and shrubs, this is usually done for the winter months. By doing this you are creating a layer of natural matter which helps to improve soil structure. Mulch is very useful as it can help to retain moisture and keep the soil warmer around plants. Placing an extra layer on top of the soil, farm manure can also help to suppress weeds and adds nutrients to the soil as it rots down further.

Manure for feeding your Beds and Border

Start looking preparing your garden beds and borders for spring as early as possible, from Autumn onwards. Take any opportunity when the ground is not frozen to dig in your farm manure. If you have raised beds for growing vegetables, turn the soil over and add some fresh well-rotted manure, making sure that it is mixed in well. Manure is an economical fertilizer too – well-rotted manure is very rich in nutrients so a little goes a long way. This will provide a new wave of nutrients for the next batch of seeds and seedlings that you plant. The same applies to flower beds containing bedding plants such as Pansies and Violas adding some fresh manure will give your spring bedding a real boost.

Manure as a soil improver

Many of us have an area of the garden where the soil quality is poor. Areas that have had hedges and trees taken from them, for example, will be devoid of nutrients therefore by adding manure, will reinvigorate the soil in this situation. Similarly, areas that suffer from heavy clay will benefit from adding manure to the existing soil as it helps to break the clay down over time and subsequently improve drainage.

Manure Delivered to you

Our different types of manure, here at Lymefield, can all be delivered to you. Our locally obtained well-rotted Farm Manure is provided in bulk bags. These can be delivered by ourselves throughout the Manchester, Derbyshire, and Cheshire areas. They are an extremely cost-effective way of buying manure. Secondly, we also supply Westland Farmyard Manure rich in organic matter. Available in 50-litre bags these are light and easy to carry, ideal for areas with awkward access. All manure products in bulk bags and 50-litre bags can be delivered to your door wherever you are in the UK. Our Delivery Service transports our products to all our local postcodes including Greater Manchester, Cheshire, and Derbyshire. Plus we use a Pallet service to provide our bulk bag products nationwide deliveries.

To order manure and for further help and information just call us on 01457 764686 or order online.

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