Taro needs rich, well-draining soil to flourish. Mix equal parts of potting soil, compost, and perlite for optimum results.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

CRAIG T. KOJIMA / [email protected] 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 ...