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 I started planting taro, I believe something spiritual came ... Hard work, endurance and passion are essentials to farming, Pahia said, but it seems especially so for the person in charge ...

He also worked with the Hanalei taro farmers, some of whom have been farming in the valley for over 100 years, and who produce more than two-thirds of Hawaii’s poi. He said that another of his ...