How far would you go to achieve your dreams?
Well one woman from Ahuriri/Napier wouldn't take "no" for an answer when her online fundraising campaign for a food bartering app fell short of its target.
She simply sold her house and went to live off-grid to find an online app, where gardeners can swap their produce.
"Here's your eggs, here's your mandarins, kiddies will love these, school lunches," says Magic Beans co-founder Sarah Grant, as she swaps her produce with others in her community.
The app has been seven-and-a-half years in the making.
Grant and business partner Anneliese Hough initially ran Magic Beans in Hawke's Bay through a local Facebook group.
But they always wanted garden produce growers to be able to connect nationally - even globally.
Newshub first met Grant and Hough a couple of years ago but efforts to raise money online fell short.
"It made us even more determined to continue and build Magic Beans into an app, one way or another."
That's why Grant decided to sell her house in Ahuriri/Napier to live off-grid in a caravan in the small community of Dartmoor, in Mātau a Māui/Hawkes Bay.
"It seemed a bit selfish to me to keep sitting on this pile of money contained in a house when it could actually get put to much better use to help so many more people," Grant told Newshub.
Their dream finally became reality this week.
Grant's business background and Hough's technical expertise combined to create their app - accessible through magicbeansapp.com.
"It feels like our life's work both Anneliese and I feel that this is such an important thing to do for people and the planet," Grant said.
"So for us it's everything."
Hough said she was "incredibly proud" of Grant.
"She's an amazing business partner and co-founder and we are so good at propping each other up when needed and I consider her a sister now.
"We're basically family," she said.
