Good friends of mine just launched a new venture –  www.hellomakana.com. Connecting friends and family from afar with created-in-Hawaii products. It’s certainly worth checking out and sharing with your extended ohana. Even better, they’re offering a discount through Oct 4!

Makana is a subscription service that delivers a monthly “care-package” of select products created in Hawaii.  We work closely with local artists, community producers, entrepreneurs and family-owned enterprises to share the best of Hawaii.  Anyone, anywhere can join Makana or share it as a gift to others.  Makana subscribers receive a monthly delivery in the mail:

• 3-5 items/products created-in-Hawaii
• foods/snacks, health/beauty, novelty, small commissioned artworks, music/media
• chosen by us for uniqueness, creativity, authenticity, quality of production

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You too can help get Makana off-the-ground. Here are three ways you can do so:

Join! 
You get something too. A special discount on 6-month and 12-month subscriptions (First shipment in mid-October), good through 11:59pm HST, October 4, 2012.

Give! 
Gift some early holiday aloha or remind your college student of home. The “Friends & Family” discount may be applied to multiple subscription purchases.

Socialize! 
Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter & Instagram @hellomakana, Pinterest (hellomakana) and read the latest on our blog.  Share the Friends & Family discount with your networks, use the hashtag #hellomakana.