A small vege shop in rural Hastings has just re-opened its doors, nine months after it was destroyed during cyclone Gabrielle.
The shelves are still fairly bare, and most of the roadside signs advertising available produce were washed away in the floods.
But while it might not look it, locals are spreading the word that Springfield is open - to help a couple in their seventies get back on their feet.
Reporter Lauren Crimp paid them a visit.
