Retired nurse Jen Love-Huppatz launches creative mending start-up Mending Grandpa's Jacket

Desiree Savage
Updated September 27 2021 - 4:35pm, first published 2:45pm
START-UP BUSINESS: 'In establishing Mending Grandpa's Jacket is to highlight the beauty of items that are already owned and give them a new lease of life. Its my way of reducing waste, and caring for the earth,' says Jen Love-Huppatz. Picture: Sylvia Liber
START-UP BUSINESS: 'In establishing Mending Grandpa's Jacket is to highlight the beauty of items that are already owned and give them a new lease of life. Its my way of reducing waste, and caring for the earth,' says Jen Love-Huppatz. Picture: Sylvia Liber

Several years ago retired nurse Jen Love-Huppatz found herself living in a tiny house amongst "permaculture communities" with her daughter, which revived a love for mending broken things.

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Desiree Savage

Desiree Savage

Editor - The Senior

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