His eyes light up when he talks about the challenge of growing taro in hard places, especially in dry land, which is unpopular because it has to be done right. Called a canoe crop since it was ...

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 ...

Have land that kalo would grow on? It is a viable crop to offset the two million pounds brought in from elsewhere! Taro leaves and the corm to make pa‘i‘ai and poi contain calcium oxalate ...

Among these opportunity crops are yams, sweet potato and taro, with some wild varieties offering significantly higher levels ...

Thanks, Maria. Taro - what a fascinating vegetable and one that, as you say is plentiful, but so few New Zealand homes cook with it. Many NZ’ers think of it as a Pacific crop, and yet so many ...