April 13, 2008, By CHRIS HAMILTON, Staff Writer, The Maui News
HUELO -- Hidden amid the jungle and just up from the ocean, these 2 acres of green and fertile land contain 25 terraced taro patches that have been in Beatrice Kekahuna’s family for at least 150 years.
In communal harmony, four segments of the family worked and laughed late last week as they maintained five taro patches, or kalo loi, which are similar to rice paddies.
They said they want to grow much more of the versatile starchy staple of the Hawaiian diet.
But there isn’t enough water from Honopou Stream. So the family manicures the rest of the empty patches, and the dry earth remains cracked and scarred.
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