East Maui farmer Ed Wendt recalled how at one point in the 1980s, stream water into his and other neighboring taro patches was so low for years that many, including his son, focused on keeping a few ...

Adam Asquith manages Kealia Farm in Kapaa, Kauai, which produces up to 3 tons of taro every week. Through hisKauai Taro Co., Asquith is developing new products to make use of taro. The future of the ...

Farmers on the Hawaiian island of Kauai say their state should brace for a shortage of its taro crop, a staple of the traditional Hawaiian diet, after record-breaking rains flooded their fields. The ...

Naaman Toko, above, tends taro plants in one of his patches in Waipio Valley. At left, experienced hands help young hands pound cooked taro into poi. The Waipio Kalo Festival on Saturday will feature ...

At the start of the coronavirus crisis last year, Dean Wilhelm and his wife Michelle, founders of Ho'okua'aina, started offering taro clippings from their nearly 8-acre Kalo farm to anyone who wanted ...

Unless you live in the high mountainous regions of the country, growing potatoes in the home garden is practically impossible. We’ve tried it, and usually end up with a harvest of potatoes the size of ...

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, only one ...

HILO A troop of Boy Scouts spruced up one of the courses at Skyline Eco-Adventures last week with a new taro patch. About 10 Boy Scouts planted 100 taro at the end of a course after enjoying a day of ...