'Hero' Wayne rebuilds storm-torn cart

GOING AGAIN: Pauline Harwood of Lavender Magic, with her repaired mobile cart.

A mobile lavender business pummelled by a wind storm last year has bounced back after a "hero" rebuild.

Lavender Magic owner Pauline Harwood's mobile cart was picked up and thrown against a roller door by high winds before coming to rest upside down last October.

"Wayne [Adcock] was my hero," Ms Harwood said of her partner who rebuilt the mobile cart after the storm.

The Mt Holdsworth duo, with help from friends, have already begun harvesting crops for their award-winning lavender oil.

"We just got on with the job really," Ms Harwood said.

Lavender Magic has won the national award for the best angustifolia lavender oil for the past two years.

Ms Harwood said she "absolutely" thinks that Lavender Magic will take out the award for the third time.

Once harvested, the crop will be taken to the Kapiti Coast to be steam distilled and turned into lavender oil.

Ms Harwood said she lost between $4000 and $5000 rebuilding the cart and replacing soaps, lavender cremes and essential oils.

After a call from Mr Adcock, Ms Harwood came home to find her product and pieces of the cart strewn across the driveway.

She told the Wairarapa Times-Age last year that it looked like a tornado picked up the cart and smashed it against the shed.

"You just got to pick your feet up and get going again."