Even during the coldest time of the year, gardener Suky Sung Lee enjoys her taro, the “potato of the tropics.” She doesn’t eat the tennis-ball-size tubers, but rather the strips of the fibrous stems, ...

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 ...

Amy B.H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden in Captain Cook will hold its eighth annual Grow Hawaiian Festival Saturday. The festival offers an opportunity for weavers, kapa artists, woodworkers, gourd ...

Reporting from KANEOHE, Hawaii — Given the gooey, sticky consistency of poi, it’s perhaps no surprise that tourists who try it at one of Hawaii’s luaus describe it as tasting like wallpaper paste.

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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 ...

Check out this nutritious alternative to potatoes that can be added to a number of dishes and grown all year round in FNQ. Taro is a vegetable for all seasons. The staple carbohydrate of Oceania, it ...

A 50-pound kalo corm was harvested at Aina ‘Ahiu Farm in South Kona last month, making it possibly the largest taro ever recorded. Clarence and Nellie Medeiros, who harvested the taro root, took 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 ...

Check out this nutritious alternative to potatoes that can be added to a number of dishes and grown all year round in FNQ. Taro is a vegetable for all seasons. The staple carbohydrate of Oceania, it ...