For 36 years, until 1985, when they retired from taro farming, Shoichi Nagamine (1920-2001) and his wife, Shizuko Nagamine (1924-2008), raised taro on their 12-acre farm in Hanapepe Valley. Wow! Kudos ...

The packed-earth trail winds through the dense and tangled forest of Vanuatu, the ocean crashing just meters to our right.

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 ...

HONOLULU – Taro farmers and Native Hawaiians protested the lack of a moratorium on the sacred taro plant Tuesday, saying it should be protected by law from meddling researchers. Holding signs saying, ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Caren Atieno a lecturer at Rongo University attends to her Arrow root farm at Rongo ...

Waimea taro farmers John A’ana, Wesley Yadao and Galen Ka’ōhi are the descendants of families who’ve nurtured the Native Hawaiian staple crop for generations. They worry that a proposed clean energy ...

Besi Youth Association (BYA) has signed a partnership agreement with leading taro buyer Goshen Enterprise in Auki, Malaita on Monday. The partnership marks a major step forward for the taro industry ...

Caren Atieno a lecturer at Rongo University attends to her Arrow root farm at Rongo University on November 30, 2023 she also explained on how she started the project and the reason. [Caleb Kingwara, ...