Kalo farmer Bobby Pahia of Hoaloha Farms stands in a field of his dryland taro Friday morning in Waikapu. He is in charge roughly 300 acres of farmland owned by developer Mike Atherton and ...
This story appears in the December 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Hawaiian legend holds that taro is the sacred ancestor of all Hawaiian people. The staple root crop is so valued that ...
WAIMEA – The reporter continues to rack his brain to come up with the name of the educated chap who told him it was easy to farm taro, just plant and watch it grow, and why the reporter was silly ...
Specialty crops occupying some of the smallest acreages of farmland among Valley counties are, from left, taro, which amounted to one acre or less in 2022 in Fresno County; daikon radish ...
In a secure, temperature-controlled vault in Fiji's capital of Suva, stacks of tiny vials hold several plantations-worth of sprouting plants. The dazzling display of banana, taro, breadfruit, yam ...