Megan Navarro
KYLE — Sinclaire Haskin founded her mobile coffee and beverage company out of a need to be present for her children during the moments that matter the most. Now, she is looking to a hopeful future of continuing to grow her roots in the Hays County community.
Lemon & Leaf officially started in May 2025 after Haskin and her family moved to Texas from Washington. The mother of five wanted a change, where she wasn’t working a traditional full-time job with 40 hours a week, keeping her from being an involved parent that is there for her children for school drop-offs, significant milestones and more.
Haskin was initially selling lemonade at the beverage trailer, but once the winter season started to approach, she started thinking on how she could maintain her mission: connecting with her new community.
“How can we connect in the wintertime? Because I feel like lemonade is not a huge thing when it's cold. So, we started to kind of dip into coffee, which kind of brought us an entirely different set of clientele. Through that, we've just made a lot of big connections within Kyle, Buda and these areas,” she explained.
Along with coffee, lemonades and matcha, Haskin also supports another local business — BestBakes Bakery in Kyle — by purchasing breakfast sandwiches and other food items to sell at the trailer.
Though the balance of being a working mother can be challenging, even with the flexibility of owning her own business, Haskin shared that ensuring that her family has a routine, consistency and open communication is key. She added that she even brings her children to work for her at times, so that they can learn the ins and outs of the business.
“Everything is not going to be balanced all the time. So, I definitely have my struggles with keeping up with things that need to get done in the house, but also making sure that everything in business is taken care of and is running smoothly, as well. It's definitely not perfect, but I would say that the biggest thing is routine and consistency and making sure that I communicate very well with my kids, so my kids know what's going on. We're very open when it comes to that, so they know when I have to do something for the business,” she said. “Sometimes, just as a mom, I feel guilty because I feel like I should just pour 100% into my kids, but I'm also teaching them that we still have to build and make a living and we still have to learn those skills outside of the house. It's just something that I really want to build for them to be able to take over once they become of age and if they choose to go that route, they have that.”
Looking to the future, Haskin explained that, through Lemon & Leaf, she is wanting to work with and mentor troubled youth and young adults, offering them job skills, guidance and a place where they belong. This stems from her own experience of having a difficult upbringing and not having the mentorship that she feels like kids need.
“I really just want to be connected with whether that's like alternative schools or even the local high schools, or even different programs, like job programs and different things like that, to be able to partner with them and kind of teach life skills, entrepreneurship and all of the skills that I wish somebody would have been there to teach me,” she said. “[I want to] give the kid that no one paid attention to a chance to be seen and to be heard.”
She is also wanting to continue making connections with other businesses and people: “I just want to be that village and help build that village, not just for myself, but for the community.”
Lemon & Leaf is a mobile beverage trailer that moves throughout Hays County. While it was initially stationed at The Goddard School of Kyle, Haskin decided approximately a month ago to make it fully mobile, where it is present throughout Kyle and Buda, with the potential to expand to different areas, such as Wimberley.
To stay up-to-date on the menu and where Lemon & Leaf will be next, follow the business on Instagram at www.instagram.com/lemon.and.leaf.
