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 ...

Many of its ~2,000 residents practice subsistence farming and fishing and irrigated taro farming that is seen by residents as integral to their connections to the land and their ancestors. Since the ...

Na Moku complained that the water diversions with a 450 million gallon a day capacity dried up streams that hindered taro farming and other native practices and disrupted the natural habitat in ...

Now some water rights advocates are shifting the flow. Says farmer Hōkūao Pellegrino, who is restoring a traditional, terraced taro farm on his family’s land on Maui: “People are surprised ...

Wesley Yadao, 71, farms five acres of taro in a region of Kauai where generations of families have tended the starchy root vegetable in wet paddies fed by the Waimea River. His tough-knuckled ...

Otieno has a ready market for her nduma as buyers come directly to the farm. She sells one corm of nduma at between Sh100 to Sh200. The lecturer also uses the leaves of taro as vegetables as she ...

which encompasses using hands-on experience at the school’s Panaewa farm lot. Students apply the principles to cultivate ...