Nope. Not happening. Never. He said growing up on Oahu, his friends all had to work on taro farms after school — there was no way he would do that kind of hard labor. In his 30s, something changed.

Many of its ~2,000 residents practice subsistence farming and fishing and irrigated taro farming that is seen by residents as integral to their connections to the land and their ancestors. Since the ...

Na Moku complained that the water diversions with a 450 million gallon a day capacity dried up streams that hindered taro farming and other native practices and disrupted the natural habitat in ...

When you’re full up on Waikiki, says Rapozo, head for the countryside to hike an ancient volcano, see the site where Hawaiian chiefs were born, get muddy volunteering on a taro farm, or visit an ...

Heacock has a larger goal than simply integrating the buffaloes into his own farm, where he grows taro, avocado, rambutan, breadfruit, papaya, coconuts, bananas, bamboo, cacao, yerba mate ...

Now some water rights advocates are shifting the flow. Says farmer Hōkūao Pellegrino, who is restoring a traditional, terraced taro farm on his family’s land on Maui: “People are surprised ...

Wesley Yadao, 71, farms five acres of taro in a region of Kauai where generations of families have tended the starchy root vegetable in wet paddies fed by the Waimea River. His tough-knuckled ...