Mayfield Lavender is a small family run business that specializes in growing and selling all kinds of Lavender from their 25-acre site in Banstead, Surrey.

An additional dilapidated plant nursery was bought in 2011 near Epsom, and has been slowly cleared of over 20 skip loads of plastic, glass, metal and rubble to enable owners Lorna and Brendan Maye to develop the business, increase the overall site area and alongside it the food and drink offering which was operated initially from a 25ft shipping container.

Brendan and Lorna visited the Horti Catering stand at Glee stand last year to get help and advice on how they could develop their ideas for expanding their Café and business. They also entered the competition being run by Horti Catering at the show to win a £25,000 Coffee Shop for their garden centre. To their complete amazement they won.

Brendan comments: “We couldn’t believe it when we got the phone call to tell us that we’d won the prize, and to be able to tune in to and trust the years of friendly, down to earth advice that runs across the whole team at Horti Catering.

"This level of expertise will help us to boost the future growth of the business. We hope to be selling our first panini’s and lavender cakes from the new unit in the next few weeks – it’s all very exciting! “

Horti Catering’s Managing Director, Amanda McGreavy has overseen the project and worked alongside Lorna and Brendan to ensure that they have a Coffee Shop that they are happy with and that can be developed further as their business grows. 

“Being able to reinvest profits back into the Coffee Shop as footfall increases, is vital,“ says Amanda.  “We always work closely with our clients with the future in mind so that they can expand easily as and when the business allows."

Amanda and the team at Horti Catering will be at Glee again this year, but if you would like some friendly advice about your food and catering operation in the meantime call her on: 07715 077582 or email at: amanda@horticatering.co.uk

For more information about Mayfield Lavender visit www.mayfieldlavender.com