Serenda owner Sacha Cornelissen, with her two-year-old son Max, and barista Dani Miles with the charity fruit and vegetable stand outside the coffee van.
Serenda owner Sacha Cornelissen, with her two-year-old son Max, and barista Dani Miles with the charity fruit and vegetable stand outside the coffee van.
Have you ever wondered what to do with all those surplus beans, tomatoes, lemons and silverbeet that grow abundantly in our gardens?
Sacha Cornelissen, who owns the Serenda coffee van that sets up outside Te Awamutu Sports every weekday morning, has the perfect idea.
"We figured that so manyof us have fruit rotting away under trees or too many tomatoes to keep up with, so why not have somewhere people can purchase the freshest of the fresh produce and the community gets something from this," explained Mrs Cornelissen.
"The idea initially came from customers always talking about how their gardens go crazy.
And often they would gift us produce for our staff," she said.
Mrs Cornelissen has set up a stall beside her van where people can bring their excess homegrown produce, put a fair price on it and customers can use the honesty box system to purchase the fresh seasonal fruit and vegetables.
"Kihikihi Garage donated the wood and my husband Josh got busy building the stall," she said.
