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 ...

The Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge is home a number of rare and beautiful species like the Cahaba lily, which draws thousands of visitors every spring when they bloom. Unfortunately, there's ...

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 ...

HILO A troop of Boy Scouts spruced up one of the courses at Skyline Eco-Adventures last week with a new taro patch. About 10 Boy Scouts planted 100 taro at the end of a course after enjoying a day of ...

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 ...

One in an occasional series of guides on growing popular plants. Other guides include lenten rose, peony, redbud, azalea, coleus, lantana, coneflower, savory calamint and rudbeckia. The elephant ear ...

The University of Hawaii-Manoa has decided that some patents, even if they have commercial potential, just are not worth having. The university last month relinquished its three patents on breeds of ...

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 ...