Green Gardening on Maui

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In support of Earth Day, I was asked to make a presentation on Green Gardening to the Realtors Association of Maui for their Friday HOT Topics. It's a lot of information to squeeze into 20 minutes but there are some great resources. Green Gardening On Maui from AlohaKathy Here are the … [Read more...]

2012 Year In Review

Celebration

When Facebook decided that they could give me the top 20 items for the year, I realized that my Christmas card often serves as a collection but that didn't quite get done this year.   Can you tell that I love living in Maui!Our almost annual trip to California Wine Country in January.   Great … [Read more...]

Maui REALTOR Kathy Becklin talks about Grow Some Good

Maui News Article on Kathy Becklin and Grow Some Good 2012-06-02

Last week, I was featured in the Kahiau column that highlights REALTORS who are giving back to the community.  I've stressed many times that part of living in Maui is having the spirit of volunteerism.  This is one of the activities that I do to give back!   Grow Some Good supports educational … [Read more...]

We’re Moving – Next Door to Fabiani’s!

Our New Office

Well - my office is moving.   It's not as bad as changing brokerages but an office change has effects that seem to creep into every piece of information that REALTORs produce! For example, I was just updating my Craigslist listings and saw the old address.  I'm sure I'll keep running into it in … [Read more...]

This Month in Real Estate – Winterizing Your Home

Aloha! This month the regular feature from Keller Williams talks about home values, what buyers are looking for and winterizing your home.  While winterizing is not all applicable to our Maui climates, it is a good time to do house repairs.  I have a few tips at the end. Kathy's … [Read more...]

Volunteerism on Maui

Maui School Garden Network Site

It is rare that I "toot" my own horn.  But after scooping poop and working most of yesterday in the sun with a most exceptional group of volunteers, I feel it is justified.  I do a lot of volunteer activities.  Sometimes I think that I spread myself too thin.  But I remind myself that my … [Read more...]

Mudslide hits Kihei!

Kathy in the Mud

This morning I went down to the Hawaiian Island Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary this morning to do my volunteer water quality testing. I wasn't surprised that they had canceled events as I had seen some of mess on Kihei Road yesterday and read the Maui News article this morning. Volunteers … [Read more...]

Evaluation of the Candidates

Evaluating The Candidates....

As part of South Maui Sustainability I recently volunteered to review the responses of many of our candidates on two issues important to sustainability groups.   I am posting this blog so that many of you out there are inspired to do the same kind of evaluation using issues that are important to … [Read more...]

Harvest Day Party

We had a great time earlier this week at the Harvest Day Party, at the South Maui Sustainability Kihei Elementary School Garden. Read all about it at Maui Green... -> … [Read more...]

The School Garden And Peter’s Mostly Locavore Pasta Sauce Recipe

I haven't been blogging about our work at South Maui Sustainability with the Kihei Elementary School Garden as much as I should have. We've made a lot of progress in the last year, and even got written up in The Huffington Post by Lorna Sass, who was here on vacation. As of yesterday, the School … [Read more...]