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 ...

Taro, a crop whose roots date back centuries in Hawaii, will be celebrated this month in the remote Maui village of Hana. Taro is best known as the plant from which poi is made, but it can take ...

Not everyone finds poi, the grayish-purple mash made from the root of the taro plant, as appetizing as Hawaiians do. Taro was a source of sustenance for the early Polynesian settlers, and poi retains ...

There are several foods unique to Hawaii that every seasoned foodie traveler must try. One of them is poi — the pale purple paste that results from pounding the kalo, or revered taro plant. A root ...

Besides celebrating all things taro, the East Maui Taro Festival includes cultural activites such as performing hula, making kapa (tapa), weaving lau hala bracelets, playing konane (Hawaiian checkers) ...

Kauai farmers say the state should brace for a shortage of taro after record-breaking rain flooded their fields. The deluge hit the north shore community of Hanalei particularly hard. The region grows ...

Even before last week’s flooding blocked Kuhio Highway at the Hanalei bridge, Bino Fitzgerald was predicting a poi shortage this summer. A variety of pests including pocket rot (a disease that forms ...

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 ...

Waikiki is returning to its roots. One Honolulu hotel garden every month harvests a small patch of taro, a vegetable once ubiquitous along the area’s marshes and one critical to the islands’ most ...

The 27th annual East Maui Taro Festival will be pounding with food, music, Hawaiian culture and arts and crafts from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at the Hana Ballpark. “The purpose of the festival is to ...

Lyndsey Haraguchi-Nakayama plants huli, or taro seedlings at her farm in Hanalei, Kauai island. Farmers on the island of Kauai say their state should brace for a shortage of its taro crop, a staple of ...