For more than 1,000 years, taro, or “kalo” as Native Hawaiians call it, was a staple crop in Hawai’i. Expand your understanding of food systems as a Civil Eats member. Enjoy unlimited access to our ...

HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - For the last century, members of the Haraguchi family have been caretakers of 55 acres of wetland taro in Kauai’s Hanalei Valley. Two years before the pandemic, ...

MAUNAWILI, HAWAII (HawaiiNewsNow) - Reconnecting and rebuilding Hawaii's lands and people from the ground up — that's the mission of an Oahu family who transformed a plot of land in Maunawili into a ...

Kalo farmer Bobby Pahia stands in a field of his dryland taro in Waikapu in 2019. Matthew Thayer/The Maui News Taro farmer Bobby Pahia decided to run for the Upcountry seat on the Maui County Council ...

May 9—While the number of endangered Hawaiian stilts, or aeo, has been on the rise in recent decades, the long-term outlook for the species is much more uncertain as sea level rise threatens to wipe ...

CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARADVERTISER.COM Andrew Dedrick, center, founder of Urban Farm Hawaii, talks with Nate Ortiz, left, and Mitchell Loo among taro plants they cultivated in a parking lot ...

In a Hawaiian genesis story, a stillborn baby’s grave site grows the first taro plant, which feeds his younger brother, the first Hawaiian. The tale is at the root of the culture’s reverence for taro, ...

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 ...

HONOLULU — Farmers on Kauai say the 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 state’s taro ...

This is part of Travel Firsts, a series featuring trips that required a leap of faith or marked a major life milestone. Trudging through knee-deep, murky water with an ax in hand was not what I ...

A 17-year battle over water rights in East Maui that pitted Native Hawaiian taro farmers and practitioners against Alexander & Baldwin and its stream diversions for agricultural ventures concluded ...