KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) — A super-sized taro root has been harvested on Hawaii's Big Island. The 50-pound corm, which is the root of a taro plant, was grown on Aina ‘Ahiu Farm in Hawaii Island’s ...

Taro is a starchy root vegetable that’s beloved by people all over the world, from the Caribbean Islands to West Africa, Greece, Egypt, India, east Asia and the Pacific Islands. Many researchers ...

If you've ever had a creamy purple drink at a boba shop or sampled a bowl of poi alongside your kalua pork at a luau, you've tasted one of the world's first cultivated plants: taro. This starchy root ...

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 ...

Specialty crops occupying some of the smallest acreages of farmland among Valley counties are, from left, taro, which amounted to one acre or less in 2022 in Fresno County; daikon radish, only one ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) — A super-sized ...

It’s a sweet, vanilla-coconut flavor that shows up in boba tea and ice cream, and the main ingredient in both savory, crunchy chips and perfectly bouncy, cakey doughnuts — but, before it gets ...