WanakaApp: ‘Camphill Coffee’ cart now open in Hāwea Flat
Written by Sue Wards (WanakaApp)
After more than 30 years there is once again a commercial food hub in Hāwea Flat.
The small settlement’s original store, McPhee’s General Store on Camphill Road, closed 60 years ago and reopened as a Four Square store, which operated until the late 1970s.
When Leanne Harling bought the store in 1993, it had been closed for years, the nearby garage was also closed, and the Post Office (now the Hāwea playgroup) had closed earlier in the 80s.
But the first steps of new commerce have returned to Hāwea Flat in the form of Leanne’s recently opened coffee cart, Camphill Coffee, on the site of the former Four Square store, and her takeaway coffee and food is being well received by the community.
