Kipahuli farmer John Lind was the winner in the wetland kalo category, with E kūpaku ka ‘āina executive director, Penny Levin, at the East Maui Taro Festival in 2019. Photo courtesy EKKA The ...

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 ...